Truck Activity Monitoring System for Freight Transportation Analysis

External costs of intercity truck freight transportation

From a societal perspective, it is desirable for all transportation users to pay their full social (private and external) costs. We estimate four general types of external costs for intercity freight trucking and compare them with the private costs incurred by carriers. Estimated external costs include: accidents (fatalities, injuries, and property damage); emissions (air pollution and greenhou...

External Costs of Truck and Rail Freight Transportation

Traceability information system for freight transportation chain

In this paper we present our research works centered on a problematic which attract the attention of many researchers and decision maker, which is the traceability of the product. we are interested more precisely to the traceability in the field of goods transportation, by proposing a modeling approach of the relative data to freight, the result of this modeling, was used in the form of a centr...

Securing Freight Trains for Hazardous Material Transportation: a Wsn-based Monitoring System

In recent years the interest in monitoring infrastructures has spread in many application domains, even because of the number of natural disasters and terrorist attacks. This important activity can be seen in the general context of critical infrastructure protection such as the freight train meant for hazardous materials transportation. The design of these systems must answer to several issues:...

Design and Implementation of Monitoring and Management System for Tank Truck Transportation

In order to reduce the wastage and loss of petroleum products in transit, a monitoring and management system is proposed for tank truck transportation. In this system, a vehicle transport recorder is developed to record the operations of inputs and outputs of a tank truck via a kind of Hall Effect switch sensors. Wireless data transceivers are designed to start and stop monitoring in the starti...