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Studies in Informatics and Control
Vol. 15, No. 2, 2006

SINMAR-TMM an Innovative System for Freight Terrestrial Multimodal Transport Management

Gabriela Rodica Hrin, Lucian Emanuel Anghel, Adrian David
Abstract

SINMAR-TMM is an intelligent system for freight terrestrial multimodal transport management created within Amtrans program, a Romanian research, development and innovation project coordinated by the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics. CFR-MARFA, the Romanian freight railway Transport Company is the user and co-financier of the system. The SINMAR-TMM system supports the planning and monitoring processes specific to freight multimodal terrestrial transport. SINMAR-TMM is dedicated to economic agents involved in the freight multimodal terrestrial transport as freight providers, freight buyers, forwarding agencies, freight railway transport operators, freight road transport operators, container / standard transport unit owners, warehouses / terminals operators. The SINMAR-TMM system contains a set of integrated hardware and software components and uses and integrates a diversity of ICT1 technologies.

Keywords

multimodal terrestrial transport, container, transport planning and monitoring, GPS, GIS, RFID, GPRS

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