00799028

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1707-10

http://scholar.google.com...rcia&publication_year=2000

In the past few years, tools have been developed based on different communication means with the purpose of achieving a safer, more efficient, and environment-friendly operation of vehicular flows in the transport systems. Some of the early means generally involved a very strong human participation. In the course of time and with the rapid progress made in electronics, telecommunications, and computer systems, such processes have become automated until generating a series of technologies that currently are incorporated into the single generic term of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). This research has multiple purposes. First, some characteristics of road freight transport in Mexico are presented. Then, with such characteristics under consideration, the ITS technologies with the largest potential for application to that transportation type are described. A vision of future implementation is shown. Finally, some conclusions are presented.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1707, Freight Transportation Research.

English

p. 81-85

2000

Transportation Research Record

0309066867

References (8)

Freight transportation; Future; Implementation; Intelligent transportation systems; Trucking

Mexico

Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

Sep 27 2000 12:00AM

• CAR SCHEDULING: WHAT'S THE POINT? (WITH DISCUSSION AND CLOSURE)
• DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION
• DEVELOPMENT OF A STATEWIDE TRUCK TRIP FORECASTING MODEL BASED ON COMMODITY FLOWS AND INPUT-OUTPUT COEFFICIENTS
• ESTIMATING MAINTENANCE-OF-WAY COSTS FOR U.S. RAILROADS AFTER DEREGULATION
• EXTERNAL URBAN TRUCK TRIPS BASED ON COMMODITY FLOWS: A MODEL
• HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION ON U.S. RAILROADS: APPLICATION OF RISK ANALYSIS METHODS TO DECISION MAKING IN DEVELOPMENT OF REGULATIONS
• REDUCING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RELEASES FROM RAILROAD TANK CAR SAFETY VENTS
• RELATIONSHIP OF FREIGHT FACILITIES IN CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT OFFICE BUILDINGS TO TRUCK TRAFFIC
• TRIP LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS IN COMMODITY-BASED AND TRIP-BASED FREIGHT DEMAND MODELING: INVESTIGATION OF RELATIONSHIPS
• VALUE PRICING AND FREIGHT TRAFFIC: ISSUES AND INDUSTRY CONSTRAINTS IN SHIFTING FROM PEAK TO OFF-PEAK MOVEMENTS