AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF UNITISED CARGO IN PORT TERMINALS - THE INTERPORT PROJECT

INTERPORT, a project within the DGXIII Transport Applications Programme, waterborne sector, demonstrates automatic identification systems and their integration with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and terminal information systems in small and medium size port terminals. Smart Cards and radio frequency tags serve as identification technologies. INTERPORT started in 1/1996 and will be concluded in 12/1998. This paper defines the main areas of interest port terminals and their customers have in automatic identification and in its integration with EDI. It shows which benefits they expect from an implementation. Two INTERPORT test site applications are described as examples of possible set-ups. The role standardisation plays in INTERPORT is outlined. For the covering abstract, see IRRD 490001.

• Corporate Authors:

  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036

  VERTIS

  TORANOMOM 34 MORI BUILDING 1-25-5
  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • WARNECKE, C
  • WEHNERT, J
  • SHINAKIS, M
• Conference:
  • MOBILITY FOR EVERYONE. 4TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, 21-24 OCTOBER 1997, BERLIN. (PAPER NO. 2278)
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 7 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Automation; Conferences; Electronics; Freight transportation; Frequency (Electromagnetism); Ports; Radio; Smart cards
• Uncontrolled Terms: Terminus
• ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 8525: Conference; 6965: Electronics; 6997: Frequency; 741: Goods traffic; 1098: Port; 6947: Radio; 290: Smart card; 1074: Terminus
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00754343
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Oct 27 1998 12:00AM