Using Louisiana’s Interstate system, this paper aims to demonstrate how data can be used evaluate freight movement reliability, economy, and safety of truck operations improve decision-making. Data mainly from the National Performance Management Research Set (NPMRDS) Louisiana Crash Database were analyze Truck Travel Time Reliability Index, commercial vehicle User Delay Costs, safety. The resul...

Freight demand is a highly variable process over economic and industrial structure, accurate freight forecasting the basis of transportation planning. In order to clarify influencing factors volume so as analyze predict change trend accurately, this paper analyzes impact changes in economic, complete consumption coefficients on demand, through constructing an input-output model for value analys...

The paper presents a planning process, a decision support system and an optimization model designed for the tactical planning of transportation by a logistics service provider (LSP) for customers from the automotive industry focusing on the primary target of sustainable transportation. Therefore a rolling to-be planning process has been designed which covers the planning activities for differen...

While it is certainly too early to make a definitive assessment of the effectiveness of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), it is not to take stock of what has been achieved and to think about what could be achieved in the near future. In our opinion, ITS developments have been up to now largely hardware-driven and have led to the introduction of many sophisticated technologies in the tra...

The paper identifies requirements for an Information and Communication (ICT) platform for the European freight transport sectoran e-Freight Platform. The e-Freight Platform can be used to support integrated multimodal transport and improved interoperability between freight transport and administration systems. The authors illustrate the potential of such platform for enhanced Business to Admini...