INTERMODAL CARGO CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO

The system described in the report represents an effort to convert a number of general manual procedures into an integrated formal on-line computerized system for intermodal control in the Port of San Francisco. The system concept is to standardize and integrate the data transferral efforts of steamship lines, rail and motor carriers, freight forwarders and Customs House brokers by remote access to a central data bank. The simultaneous conduct of another study which took as its point of departure the operations of the ocean carrier rather than the port led to a merging of conclusions of the two efforts in the Phase I report on the Shipping Operations Information System (NTIS Order No. COM 73-10765 and 10766).

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with the City and County of San Francisco and the San Francisco Port Commission.
• Corporate Authors:

  Computer Sciences Corporation

  Systems Division
  Huntsville, AL  United States 
• Publication Date: 1973-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 169 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cargo ships; Computer programming; Containerization; Control; Control systems; Freight transportation; Information processing; Information systems; Intermodal terminals; Intermodal transportation; Railroad transportation; Seaports; Tariffs; Trucks; Water transportation
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Maritime Administration
• Geographic Terms: California; San Francisco (California)
• Old TRIS Terms: Cargo transportation; Intermodal cargo; Intermodal terminal control systems; Ma
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Motor Carriers; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00050721
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt
• Contract Numbers: MA-1004t
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 1974 12:00AM