CURRENT AND POTENTIAL MILITARY TRANSPORTATION APPLICATIONS OF EVOLVING SATELLITE-BASED COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

This paper outlines the progress made by the U.S. military transportation and security community toward developing improved intransit visibility and the resulting safety and security measures for the commercial movement of conventional ammunitions, weapons and related support equipment. It briefly reviews the background into the use of satellite communications and tracking capabilities. This is followed by a discussion of transportation safety and security. The remainder of the paper describes international transportation information tracking.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 1994 Published By: Automotive Automation Ltd., Croydon, England
• Corporate Authors:

  Dornier GmbH

  ,    

  Stanley Associates Engineering Limited

  Mayfield Business Centre, 10512-169 Street
  Edmonton, AB  Canada 

  Technology and Management Systems, Incorporated

  99 South Bedford Street, Suite 211
  Burlington, MA  United States  01803-5128

  AFT-IFTIM Group

  ,    
• Authors:
  • Buchanan, E
• Conference:
  • International Symposium on Automotive Technology & Automation (27th). Proceedings for the dedicated conferences on advanced transport telematics/intelligent vehicle-highway systems
  • Location: Aachen , Germany
  • Date: 1994-0-0
• Publication Date: 1994

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 703-708

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Satellite communication

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00787621
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Nov 17 2000 12:00AM