International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR)

ISSN: 2321-0869, Volume-3, Issue-11, November 2015

Intermodal Transport System: Trucking Industry

Abhijit Kotkar, Milind Mulinti, Nishan Adhikari, Shailesh Pondhe
crash detection system, monitoring traffic and controlling
Abstract Goods Transportation is the physical movement of signal lights, electronic and speed limit signs, reversible lanes
goods and people between two points. Generally there are five and other road safety components. Intelligent Transport
modes of the transportation of goods like Airfreight, Motor System technology framework includes wireless
Carrier, Ocean Transportation, Railroad and Pipeline. All of communication, sensing technologies, inductive loop
the five modes of transportation exist because of certain
detection, video vehicle detection and electronic toll
attributes that provide one or more advantages other than any
modes of transportation. The attractiveness of a particular mode
collection. The proposed ITS project implementation will
depends on the following important attributes: cost, speed, include core components such as follows: Vehicle Tracking
reliability, capability, capacity, and flexibility. Among of the System, Real Time Passenger Information System and
above mode the Road transportation or Motor carrier is Central Control Station. Core technologies that are useful in
important because it provide door-to-door service. The trucking ITS are Geographical Positioning System (GPS), Electronic
industry provides an important service to the any nations Display Systems, and Information & Communication
economy by transporting large quantities of raw materials, Technologies. The core objectives of the smart transport
works in process, and finished goods over land, typically from management includes:
manufacturing plants to retail distribution centers. So Road
a) Providing effective, safe solutions
transportation by using of trucking industry is very crucial for
the developing country. For efficient transportation of goods
b) Effective management by a Decision Support system by
using trucks requires good communication between shippers collecting, collating and storing information on real time basis
and trucks driver. Till now the communication facility between of the transport system and its effectiveness using
user agent and actual broker was not implemented which results communication technology.
into increase in the actual cost of total transport system due to c) Establish meaningful and effective instant two-way
intermediate agents. So we are going to introduce new system interaction facility between Driver and shippers.
where this collision will get avoided and agent will get fair cost d) Obtaining on-line real time information on truck operations
for his transportation. It will provide further extension to smart and management.
intermodal transport system.
e) Reduce the transportation delay.
Index Terms intermodal transport system, trucking industry
f) Avoid the intermediate agent.
smart intermodal transport system, Goods transportation etc.
g) Direct communication between shippers and carriers.
Proposed System Architecture:
I. INTRODUCTION
Building intelligence into the intermodal transport system
brings in the convergence of technologies providing a
empirical study of transformation in the ones experience. ITS
provides benefits in terms of reduce waiting time and
uncertainty, increase the accessibility of the system, reduce
the fuel consumption and emissions increase the safety of
users, improve environmental quality and energy efficiency ,
reduce the operational costs, improve traffic efficiency,
reduce traffic congestion, improve economic productivity.
The ITS will encourage to the public transport and reduce the
use of personal vehicles whenever possible. This concept
provide successor transport system makes intelligent. This is
important contribution to saving the environment from heavy
vehicle pollution and reducing congestion on heavy traffic
roads. There are various sub-systems under ITS which covers
vehicle-to-vehicle communications, collision avoidance and There are challenges in implementing an smart Transport
System
a) Sustainable transport is not just a case of increasing the
Manuscript received November 2015.
Abhijit Kotkar, Computer Science, SPPU/ Jaywantrao Sawant College
infrastructure available; it is also a question how to
of Engineering, Pune, India, 7709410853, (e-mail: maximizing the use of existing infrastructure and of
[email protected]). maximizing the efficiency and interoperability of all transport
Milind Mulinti, Computer Science, SPPU/ Jaywantrao Sawant College assets.
of Engineering, Pune, India, 8237107695, (e-mail:
b) Implementing ITS solutions gets more and more complex
[email protected]).
Nishan Adhikari, Computer Science, SPPU/ Jaywantrao Sawant College based on the size of the transport network to be addressed and
of Engineering, Pune, India, 8451076493, (e-mail: the size of the city and complexity of traffic conditions.
[email protected]). Changing the traditional transportation scheme to a fully
Shailesh Pondhe, Computer Science, SPPU/ Jaywantrao Sawant College automated and intelligent transportation network is a
of Engineering, Pune, India, 8888575942, (e-mail:
[email protected]). substantial up gradation of the scheme. The main problems
that are hampering this upgrading to materialize are not just

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technological limits, but cultural, conceptual, social, explanatory variables is limited as well as the number of
emotional, political and economical hurdles. In case of calibration parameters is also limited (Erlander and Stewart,
managing the large number of vehicles this becomes more 1990). The SMILE model were developed by Tavasszy and
complex. his colleagues (1998), deploys a Gravity Model. Economic
Models are other methods for determining the distribution of
the flows. However, it requires a substantial amount of data
II. LITERATURE REVIEW with respect to a level of detail that is generally difficult to
Freight transport modeling obtain (Cascetta, 2009). The multi-regional inputoutput
The first freight transport models date from the early 1970s. model was invented by Cascetta (1996) is an good example of
Over the years, number of dedicated freight transport models an economic model.
have been proposed (e.g., Ben-Akiva et al., 2013; Chow et al.,
2010; De Jong et al., 2004; Liedtke, 2009; Tavasszy, 2006). It III. CONCLUSION
is important that the four-step model, initially developed for This paper deals with easy communication between the two
modelling passenger transport, has been widely and ends. By using this application it could improve the time
successfully adapted for model freight transport (De Jong et efficiency of rental history data transmission compared to web
al., 2004). based transport management information system. The time
1) Models of production and attraction of freight. gap in delivery becomes shorter to seconds compared to not
These models are targeted to estimate the amount of freight using a web application. Data storage which is already
production and consumption at every zone within a spatial computerized will make easy the process for company in
context. Several types were developed. Trend and time series storing the data, retrieval and report, where the whole data
models use historical data to building the correlation function stored in a database that provides data security and data
and to extrapolate future values. Multiple methods were processing process so that rental data which is stored neat,
proposed for building the correlation functions (such as the clear and not lost or spilled. Intermodal transport research is
growth factor method or autoregressive correlations) one of the emerging research fields. It is still in a plagiarism
(Garrido, 2000). A similar method Zonal Trip Rate Models phase, but is evolving now a days and will soon be regarded as
relies on collected data on traffic volumes leaving or a lawful branch of scientific research.
entering the zones in question. Economic models (such as
inputoutput and related models) rely on regional economic
activity to estimate the production and consumption of goods IV. FUTURE SCOPE
in each zone (Cascetta, 1996, 2009). The agent-based model was applied to a running intermodal
2) Models for choice of mode transport service as well as used to simulate a hypothetical
These models allocate freight flows to the available transport road transport service. The development and deployment of
services . The transport services can be either contain an agent-based model is per se a contribution to the literature
single-modal (e.g train or sea, road.) or intermodal (e.g., road survey. Future improvements to the model should include the
and sea ,or road and train.). There is wide set of models are addition of multiple goods forwarders and rail carriers and
available.Oum (1989) presents a model by use of neoclassical reverse flows calculations.
economy. Ben-Akiva and De Jong (2013) presents an
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Abhijit Kotkar Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Jayawantrao

Sawant College of Engineering. , working on ITS-:Intermodal Transport
System.

.
Milind Mulinti Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Jayawantrao
Sawant College of Engineering, working on ITS-:Intermodal Transport
System.

Nishan Aadhikari Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering,

Jayawantrao Sawant College of Engineering, , working on ITS-:Intermodal
Transport System.

Shailesh Pondhe Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Jayawantrao

Sawant College of Engineering, , working on ITS-:Intermodal Transport
System.

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