SMARTFREIGHT

Description

Freight operations benefited from access to real travel time and traffic status information.
On-board units, sensors and smart tags using CALM MAIL (enabling DSRC communication with battery-powered units) and the wireless infrastructure enabled monitoring of goods transport, loading and unloading architecture specified open solutions applicable to European cities.
This was achieved by obtaining user viewpoints addressing concepts, logical relations, open ICT services and preferred technical solutions. Test sites evaluated the technical solutions, through real and simulated application of the concepts for urban traffic and transport in cities.

Objective

New traffic management measures towards individual freight vehicles that benefit the cities by means of open ICT services, on-board equipment and an integrated heterogeneous wireless communication infrastructure within the framework of CALM.
Better interoperability between traffic management and freight distribution management systems.
Better coordination of all freight distribution in a city by means of open ICT services.
Routing and re-routing for scheduled freight and service vehicles;
Provide information that improves the efficiency for these fleets;
Manage the use of loading and unloading areas;
Track freight vehicles;
Track cargo;
Monitor the status of the cargo.
Coordinating all freight distribution operations within a city by means of open ICT services, on-board equipment, wireless communication infrastructure and CALM MAIL implementation in on-board and on-cargo units, for all freight vehicles
Routing and re-routing for scheduled freight and service vehicles
Provide information that improves the efficiency of these fleets
Manage the use of loading and unloading areas
Track freight vehicles
Track cargo
Monitor the status of cargo

Project inputs:

Assign different service levels to freight vehicles, depending on their environmental profile, type of goods transport and destination
Grant priorities and access rights depending on the service level and traffic situation
Allocate routes and times slots to freight vehicles to minimise conflicts and congestion
Improving the interoperability between traffic management and freight distribution systems
Provide information that improves route planning for transport companies, such as more accurate transport network information, traffic and travel time information, through open ICT services
On board equipment’s to connect vehicle and in fracture.
Heterogeneous wireless communication infrastructure and Communication Access for Land Mobiles (CALM), ISO standard CALM Media Adapted Interface Layer implementations in on-board and on-cargo units.

Project results:

SMARTFREIGHT has enabled traffic management measures towards individual vehicles, depending on their individual properties.
The interactions with the vehicles and cargo can also improve the awareness on the traffic situation (for instance dangerous goods inside tunnels) and data collection for traffic statistics.
The information exchange with the cargo puts SMARTFREIGHT in the border of the Intelligent Cargo concept as well.

Struggles:

The novel issue in SMARTFREIGHT is the use of the ISO Communication Access for Land Mobiles (CALM) media adapted interface layer (MAIL) standard for information exchange over the 5.9 GHz short ranged CEN Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC)
DSRC is an accurate and reliable technology with low power consumption, which is a promising technology to impact the field of both cooperative systems and intelligent cargo.
Safety risks due to transport of dangerous cargo in urban areas
Scarcity of loading bays in urban areas
Information exchange between traffic management and freight distribution management

Assests:

Safety risks due to transport of dangerous cargo in urban areas
Scarcity of loading bays in urban areas
Information exchange between traffic management and freight distribution management