Road Freight—Aspects of Information Systems

Many organizations depend excessively upon internal information for planning and control. These systems look inwards and backwards; the new infrastructure of communications opens the opportunity to have systems which look outwards and forwards to the environment in which the manager’s decisions will operate. The change in emphasis to environmental data will introduce the need to consider the use of bought-in external data with the internal database. Since the external data will generally be available to be piped into the system, the downloading could be done with small processors equipped with large back-up storage. This paper describes some of the general issues explored during a three year research program at the Center for Transport Studies in England.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of British Columbia, Vancouver

  Centre for Transportation Studies
  Vancouver, British Columbia  Canada  V6T 1W5
• Authors:
  • Wright, Derek S
• Conference:
  • Research for Tomorrow's Transport Requirements. Proceedings of the Fourth World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
  • Date: 1986-5-0 to 1986-5-0
• Publication Date: 1986

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 665-676
• Monograph Title: Research for Tomorrow’s Transport Requirements

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commodities; Communication systems; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Information dissemination; Information systems; Information technology; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01082569
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 18 2007 11:29AM