Realising the Benefits of ITS in Complex Supply Networks

By facilitating the exchange of information in real time among network participants, Intelligent Transport Systems technology has greatly expanded the scope for coordinating activities in modern supply networks. Such coordination however is subject to difficult logistical conditions, giving rise to scheduling problems which do not necessarily yield well to conventional optimization techniques. In a negotiation-based approach, a scheduling task is decomposed into sub-tasks, and specialized solution procedures applied to sub-tasks are allowed to interact, with the aim of resolving any inconsistencies with regard to critical system parameters. Such an arrangement may be developed as a problem-solving device, but it may also be an effective way of harmonizing decisions amongst actual system participants (e.g. with negotiations between companies taking place via the internet). In this paper we discuss a negotiated scheduling framework for grape harvest and winery intake that we are developing for the Orlando Wyndham Group (OWG), a leading Australian winemaking company. The OWG operational environment is characterized by multiple semi-autonomous participants, and by specialized conditions with respect to the timing of harvest and the promptness of deliveries of grapes from vineyards to wineries. We hope that the ideas developed here will be valuable in other scheduling situations.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Horn, Mark E T
  • Dunstall, Simon
  • Smith, Nariida C
• Conference:
  • 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: San Francisco California, United States
  • Date: 2005-11-6 to 2005-11-10
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures; References;
• Pagination: 7p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Crops; Decision making; Intelligent transportation systems; Logistics; Networks; Problem solving; Scheduling; Supply
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01015753
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 31 2006 9:56AM