241 results about "Transportation management system" patented technology

A system and method are disclosed for coordinating customized mobility services through a network. The system includes a network, an access device configured to connect to the network, a server configured to communicate with the access device through the network, an identification module configured to identify a user's customer account and to associate at least one mobility service with the user's customer account, and a virtual mobile attendant configured to coordinate customized mobility services through the network. The method includes receiving personal vehicles supply information from at least one transit management system, receiving demand information from a virtual mobility attendant, determining target information from the supply information and the demand information for the personal vehicles in a vicinity most closely matching the end user demand information, and transmitting the target information to the virtual mobility attendant.

A system for determining the sources of delay of a transportation mean includes a wayside sub-system, a locomotive sub-system, a railcar sub-system, a a yard sub-system, a schedule sub-system, a monitoring and diagnostic sub-system and a management sub-system. Real-time collected data from the sub-systems are compared to a standard data set to identify problem areas without human intervention. Utilizing a list of top problem areas, transportation means managers are able to identify corrective actions to eliminate or minimize the sources of problem areas. In addition, customers or users of specific transportation means are able to properly select the appropriate transportation means.

The present invention relates to an assembled building detailed design and construction method based on BIM (Building Information Modeling) and large data. The method comprises the following steps of: a user-defined house type based on the BIM; multi-specialty cooperative design based on the BIM; intelligent assembled building splitting based on the BIM; construction cost analysis based on the large data; auto-generation of a production plan, a construction plan and a raw material purchase plan based on the large data; intelligent factory assembling production based on the BIM; a storage, transportation and management system based on the internet of things; on-site installation and construction management based on the BIM; and assembled building operation and maintenance management based on the BIM. By adopting the scheme provided by the present invention, the management and control of the whole assembled building design and production process are improved, the working efficiency is improved, the project quality is ensured, and the development of an assembled building can be effectively promoted.

The invention relates to a transportation management method based on the joint collaboration of a logistics company, a shipper and a carrier. The transportation management method comprises the following steps: the logistics company creates a transportation management system network platform; the shipper and the carrier visit the system network platform through the network protocol, and the logistics company signs a contract with the shipper and the carrier and delivers order information with forwarding order number according to the contract to the carrier and the shipper; the carrier adjusts according to the vehicle scheduling plan and single vote information and feedbacks the information to the system network platform; the logistics company performs expense settlement based on the information, accepts complaints and settles claims; and the network platform provides a real-time query system, so that the relevant information of accepted goods and the account statement can be checked in real time. The invention has the advantages that the shipper, the logistics company and the carrier share the total process of forwarding transportation, so that the competitiveness of a supply chain is increased; the information asymmetry caused by regional difference is solved, a supply of goods can be organized at different places, so that return vehicles of the carrier can be avoided from being empty, and benefits are brought for three parties of supplier, customer and service provider.

The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods providing a printer interface in a global communications environment for a shipping management system resident on a server computer device remote from a user client computer device, that creates an image of a shipping label with dimensionally accurate symbologies, such as a bar code label, for display on a remote display device and for printing on a remote printing device, such as a laser printer, configured with the remote user client computer device. The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods providing a printer interface that recognizes the graphic resolution for each printer, including laser printers, configured with each of a plurality of remote user client computer devices, wherein the printer interface communicates with each remote user client computer device over a global communications network. The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods for creating a shipping label image bearing a dimensionally accurate symbology for display on a display device configured with the particular remote user client computer device for printing on the particular printer device.

The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods providing a digital scale interface in a global communications shipping management environment so that a shipping management system resident on a server computer device remote from a user client computer device, receive and recognizes a weight of a parcel from the digital scale configured with the remote user client computer device.

A method for transporting cargo using a truck is provided. Preferably, the method is used in connection with full truckload operations. The method generally includes powering up a communications module residing within a cab of the truck. The communications module comprises a vehicle navigation system, a modem for receiving telecommunications signals, a processing unit for associating instructions for cargo delivery locations with geo-positioning coordinates, and a user interface. The method further includes receiving a cargo delivery data set at the communications module. The data set is sent from a host trucking management system. The data set provides at least a first cargo delivery location for the driver. The method then includes the driver acknowledging receipt of the first cargo delivery location through the user interface. Acknowledgment of receipt of the first cargo delivery location causes a signal to be sent from the communications module to the host trucking management system. The method also includes driving the truck and cargo to the first cargo delivery location. Upon arrival, the host trucking management system is informed. This is done by sending a first arrival signal from the communications module.

The invention discloses a steel plant finished product storage and distribution automatic control method. A warehouse automatic control system comprises a bridge crane control system, a laser scanning imaging system and a warehouse operation process control system; the warehouse operation process control system obtains tasks from a transportation management system, and carries out optimization calculation and safety inspection according to warehouse stack situations and bridge crane states, and automatically generates related storage or delivery operation instructions, and sends the related control instructions to the corresponding bridge crane control system, and bridge cranes, carrying out full-process unmanned driving, performs storage or delivery operation; and the laser scanning imaging system can perform laser scanning on vehicles and cargo loaded on the vehicles, and performs processing and image calculation on scanning data and then obtains the 3D coordinates of the vehicles or the cargo loaded on the vehicles, and transmits the 3D coordinates to the process control system. With the steel plant finished product storage and distribution automatic control method adopted, in storage and delivery processes, monitoring personnel can monitor on-site operating process in real time through a monitoring terminal and a human-computer interaction interface, and emergency intervention can be made in special circumstances.

An object of the present invention is to pay a toll without stopping a car and without providing a special lane for electronic payment, thereby reducing a traffic jam. The toll payment system comprises a portable telephone on a car, a base station connected with the portable telephone, a server connected with the base station. The server comprises a first memory for storing a location of the base station, a second memory for storing a unit price for each section along the highway and data identifying a contractor or contracted car, a driving route identification unit for identifying a driving route on the basis of the location stored in the first memory and a base station connected under a certain manner, a toll calculation, and a charging unit.

A method of establishing a freight shipment comprising interfacing with one or more transportation management systems and load boards. Data comprising one or more available freight loads and freight capacity is transmitted from the one or more transportation management systems in substantially real time. The one or more available freight loads and freight capacity are searched and one or more of the one or more available freight loads are matched with one or more of the one or more available freight capacity. The method continues with negotiating one or more details of a contract between the one or more of the available freight loads and one or more of the freight capacity, confirming the details between the one or more of the available freight loads and one or more of the freight capacity, collecting invoicing information, and inserting electronic receivables in one of the transportation management systems and load boards the one or more details of the contract.

What is disclosed is a novel system and method for simultaneous spectral decomposition suitable for image object identification and categorization for scenes and objects under analysis. The present system captures different spectral planes simultaneously using a Fabry-Perot multi-filter grid each tuned to a specific wavelength. A method for classifying pixels in the captured image is provided. The present system and method finds its uses in a wide array of applications such as, for example, occupancy detection in a transportation management system and in medical imaging and diagnosis for healthcare management. The teachings hereof further find their uses in other applications where there is a need to capture a two dimensional view of a scene and decompose the scene into its spectral bands such that objects in the image can be appropriately identified.

A complete logistics and transportation management system, with a number of integrated software and hardware components integrated to provide a total system for scheduling transportation assets. A method for tracking an asset includes adding at least one asset to a computer system having a web-accessible graphical user interface; adding properties to the asset in the computer system via at least one of a mobile or handheld computer or the graphical user interface; and displaying a searchable asset list in the graphical user interface, along with the quantity of each asset, location of each asset, and at least one picture of each asset.

Millions of schoolchildren take a ride to and from school on buses every day. Quite frequently we hear about multiple problems with the school buses. The school bus did not arrive on time, the bus did not show up at all, or the time or place of a bus stop has changed without notification—all these problems are unfortunately very common. Today's School Transportation systems do not always work as fast and as reliably as it is reasonably expected. These systems use phone or fax-based communication. These methods are slow, inefficient, and can be catastrophic since children's safety is on the line. Online Schoolchildren Transportation Management Method, System, and Computer Program Products, store data and provide real-time communication between the main participants of the schoolchildren transportation process: school transportation officers, district, county and / or state transportation management, schoolchildren and / or parents, and / or school bus drivers via a Web based network. Embodiments of the present invention allow efficient and streamlined communications between the main participants of the School Children Transportation Process to solve the following: Student's Transportation Change Request and Response; Transportation Information Lookup and Reporting in Real-Time; Transportation Emergencies and Exceptions; Bus Stop Location Change / Addition; Automatic Request / Response Notification Flow; Bus Arrival / Departure information; Management Reporting; Field Trips Request; Special Needs / Handicapped, Front Desk / Call Center Operator and etc. The new system (method, computer program) provides a framework for uniform and standardized information exchange between System Participants, thus guarantying uniform data collection, processing and reporting and opening numerous additional benefits to further utilization of the collected data.

A mine transportation management system capable of reducing cost by reducing the number of transportation vehicles is provided. For this purpose, the system includes a plurality of self-propelled vehicles and a plurality of vessels each having a communication section, and each being identifiable, which are connectable to and separable from each other. A loading machine having a communication section, which loads an object into at least one of the vessels. A management center, which has a communication section, selects a vessel to be transported and selects a self-propelled vehicle for transporting the selected vessel based on a transportation demand signal from a processing facility, and transmits a transportation command signal to the selected self-propelled vehicle to connect to the selected vessel and to travel to the processing facility.

The invention relates to the field of fresh food supply chain management, and specifically relates to a preposed warehouse fresh food shopping and distribution mode. The preposed warehouse fresh food shopping and distribution mode comprises a warehousing system, a distribution system and a supply chain management system, and the supply chain management system comprises five subsystems of a purchasing system, a warehouse management system, a commodity system, an order management system and a transportation management system. A centralized + distributed management mode is employed, a centralized warehouse and several preposed warehouses are arranged in the urban area, goods are stored in the preposed warehouses, a customer places an order through a mobile phone APP, goods are sent to the customer from the closest preposed warehouse, and therefore one-hour delivery is achieved. Beneficial effects of the preposed warehouse fresh food shopping and distribution mode are that a centralized + distributed warehousing mode is employed, efficient distribution of one-hour deliver in the last one kilometer is achieved; compared with a conventional mode, the intermediate links are less, the distribution efficiency is high, time is short, and the cost is low; by means of distributed storage, supply chain steps can be greatly reduced, the distribution cost of each order can be reduced to 11 yuan, and the distribution time is reduced to one hour.

A method for managing haul routes in work environments comprises collecting performance data associated with a machine operating in a work environment. The method also includes determining a drive axle torque of the machine and estimating a total effective grade associated with the machine based on the drive axle torque. The estimated total effective grade is compared with a threshold level and, if the estimated total effective grade exceeds the threshold level, a design performance of the machine may be simulated based on the calculated total effective grade. Design performance data is compared with the collected performance data, and a payload limit of the machine is adjusted if the design performance is inconsistent with collected performance data.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method, a device and a system for processing a train control message. The method comprises the following steps of: framing user data in real time and coding the framed user data; and verifying the correctness of the coding by using the inverse operation decoding of the coding, wherein if the decoding is reversible, the coding is correct; if the decoding is not reversible, the coding is wrong; and packaging the coded messages which are verified correct and transmitting the messages to ground electronic equipment. A message processing flow of framing in real time, coding, verifying and sending the user data transmitted by a bus is formed. On the basis of the European railway transportation management system coding standard UNISIG SUBSET-036, the embodiment of the invention improves the real-time of the message processing flow, greatly reduces the time consumption and overcomes the shortcomings that the efficiency of transmitting a plurality of commands such as temporary speed limit command at the same road section and the like is low and constraints such as the number limit of the transmitted commands and the like in the prior art by checking the conditions in advance, setting a caching mechanism for a BCH calculation process, performing parallel operation, constructing a reverse query character table and the like.

The invention relates to a transportation management system for hazardous chemicals. A fence area is arranged at the physical location corresponding to an enterprise of an electronic fence, and fencecollection information is generated according to whether or not a vehicle enters the fence area; a vehicle end is provided and connected with a vehicle GPS module, and the vehicle GPS module is used for detecting the physical location of the vehicle and generating location information of the vehicle; a management platform includes an order information database, the order information database is used for saving order information, the management platform is connected with an enterprise terminal and the vehicle end, and the management platform is provided with a transportation management module,a loading management module and an unloading management module; through processing of the order information, combination of the electronic fence, a vehicle-mounted GPS and weighbridge equipment, strict control of transportation process, loading process and unloading process, and strict supervision of abnormal parking, deviation from the route, and illegal loading and unloading behaviors, accuratemanagement of transportation of the hazardous chemicals is ensured, the occurrence of accidents is reduced, and economic losses are reduced.

The invention relates to a rail transportation system for controlling vehicle running by collecting and transmitting road condition information through a wireless network. The transportation system comprises a rail made up of road sections on a blocked road, a steering island, a station, a miniature electric vehicle and an intelligent transportation management system. The control of vehicle running is completed by means of information exchange between the vehicle and the road sections on the rail. The system has the advantages of no conflict with the traditional transportation system, full utilization of ground, overground and underground space, comfort like a saloon car, high speed, large capacity, no waste gas, little environment pollution, great station density, no need of transfer, automatic driving and the like. The system is applicable to the travelling of people in cities, populated areas, scenic spots, stations, airports, docks and the like.

Provided is a method and system for good transportation based on a radio frequency identification device (RFID). The method includes that an RFID reader-writer at a vehicle management place writes information of a vehicle which is going to transport goods into a fixed vehicle RFID label on the vehicle; an RFID reader-writer at a good management place writes information of goods to be transported into a goods RFID label fixed on the goods; the goods with the fixed goods RFID label are loaded in the vehicle with the fixed vehicle RFID label, an RFID reader-writer at a departure place of the vehicle and the goods reads the RFID labels passing through the RFID reader-writer, reads the vehicle information and the goods information, adds binding identification for the vehicle information and the goods information and sends the vehicle information and the goods information to a data management center; and the data management center binds and stores the vehicle information and the goods information carrying the binding identification, and then supervision is finished by an RFID reader-writer of the data management center or a goods checking place. By means of the technical scheme, efficiency and accuracy on goods management can be improved, and supervision on goods transportation is enhanced.

The invention discloses a visual finished product automobile transportation management system and a visual finished product automobile transportation management method based on a vehicle-mounted GPS (global positioning system) terminal. A multifunctional intelligent vehicle-mounted voice terminal based on GPS and 3G (the third generation telecommunication) network technologies collects vehicle GPS location information, vehicle information, video information and voice information and associates the information with a driver and a license plate number, and an LCD (liquid crystal display) screen is used for realizing video and voice scheduling; a vehicle transportation management module generates a vehicle dispatching list and associates vehicle terminals to realize intelligent report functions of checking the drive mileage, examining KPI (key performance indicator) of the driver and the like; and a WEB client management module is used for realizing client logistic tracking. By aiming at automatic logistics corporations, a solution method and key technologies are provided for implementation of the visual finished product automobile transportation management based on the vehicle-mounted GPS terminal, so that the automobile logistic corporations are more intelligent in the operation and the management and are visual in operation, the problems of safety and operation normalization during automatic logistics are solved, and the development of the modernization level of the automatic logistics corporations is facilitated.

The invention discloses a vehicle transportation management system and method. The vehicle transportation management system comprises a vehicle terminal, a monitoring center and a driver's identity tag, wherein the vehicle terminal comprises a microcontroller, a satellite positioning module, a GPRS module, an RFID reading module, a fingerprint identification module and an OBD detection module which is externally connected with an OBD interface of a vehicle by a data line. Each time when the vehicle is ignited to start up, the RFID reading module searches and reads the identity tag in a driving cab and compares the driver's fingerprint information in the driver's identity tag with the driver's fingerprint information which is input in the fingerprint identification module, the OBD detection module collects the identification information of the vehicle; and the vehicle terminal sends the identification result of the driver, the driver's ID information, the vehicle's identification information and the vehicle position information to a monitoring center. The driver's working data can be highly efficiently collected, so as to provide a firm data support for establishing a visual management system in the transport process and a carrying driver credit evaluation system.

A transportation management system coordinates the transportation of riders by drivers integrated with the system. To provide control to the rider of the route used during a trip provided by a given driver, the transportation management system computes several alternative routing options between the trip's origin location and destination location. These alternative routing options may be computed according to the rider's preferences and / or based on different optimization functions that optimize various trip parameters, for example, cost, time, traffic, and distance. The rider selects one of the alternative routing options as the preferred route between the origin location and the destination location. The transportation management system automatically communicates the routing option selected by the rider to the driver without requiring the rider to personally tell the driver of her preference.

The invention provides a container transportation transaction platform. The platform includes an order transaction settlement system, a transportation management system and a logistics tracking systems. The order transaction settlement system, the transportation management system and a logistics tracking system are connected through network signals. The order transaction settlement system includesa goods-sending-side module, a carriage-acceptance-side module and a service-side module. The transportation management system includes an order management module, a dispatching tracking module, a finance settlement module, an information sharing module, a user authority module and a system information customization module. The logistics tracking system includes an order snatching module, a container reporting module, a fee reporting module, a truck transportation route planning module, a vehicle dynamic-tracking module and an account settlement module. According to the container transportation transaction platform, logistics cost estimation, goods sending, transportation, management and dynamic tracking are integrated into a whole, and seamless information exchange of a goods sending side, a carriage acceptance side and a transportation terminal is realized.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an intelligent supply chain service integrated management platform system. The system comprises a supply chain service platform system, an ODS interface platform, an ERP system, a WMS warehouse management system, a TMS transportation management system and a BMS charging management system. The supply chain service platform system comprises a supply chain service platform module, a B2B transaction module, a block chain platform module, a financial service module, an electronic contract and bill module and a logistics express module. By the service and online transaction of a supply chain, the transaction data related to the orders, payments, bills, logistics and the like are precipitated, four flows of business flows, information flows, logistics andcapital flows are integrated into one, an information barrier is effectively broken through, and a complete supply chain four-flow information closed loop is formed; through the collection of the transaction data, the transaction authenticity is reflected, the development of the supply chain financial services is supported, and the public finance is realized.

The invention discloses a logistics transportation decision-making support system used for determining vehicle number and type required to take part in operation, and transmitting the vehicle number and type to a vehicle scheduling system. The logistics transportation decision-making support system comprises a preprocessing module, an evaluation index determining module, a performance measuring and evaluating module, a capacity decision-making module and a newly increased transportation resource decision-making support module, wherein the preprocessing module, the evaluation index determining module, the performance measuring and evaluating module and the newly increased transportation resource decision-making support module are connected with the capacity decision-making module. The logistics transportation decision-making support system and a logistics transportation decision-making support method provided by the invention can calculate whether the current steel logistics transportation business volume reaches the upper limit of the capacity of the transportation resources such as vehicles and the like to analyze the bottleneck influencing the capacity of the transportation resources such as the vehicles and the like to reach the upper limit, and simultaneously can analyze and calculate whether newly increased transportation resources are needed, and the number and type of the newly increased transportation resources.

The invention relates to a community type logistics transportation management system. The community type logistics transportation management system at least comprises a service application layer, an application supporting layer, a data resource layer and an infrastructure layer on the basis of a cloud computing technical system. The service application layer provides main service systems such as order management, waybill management, inventory management and expense settlement. The application supporting layer comprises a plurality of function assemblies and provides basic applications for the service application layer. The data resource layer comprises an order management library, an inventory management library, an expense settlement library and the like and is used for storing various service data of the system. The infrastructure layer is mainly built by the network, a storage, a server and a virtualization system. By means of building the community type logistics transportation management system, upstream and downstream multi-party service and operation collaboration of regional logistics transportation management is achieved, the logistics efficiency is effectively improved, the total logistics cost is reduced, and the transport capacity resource utilization rate is improved.

The invention discloses a logistics platform commercial-operation mode, and belongs to the technical field of internet logistics management systems. The mode is realized on the basis of a logistics transportation internet platform. The logistics transportation internet platform includes a remote server provided with a logistics transportation management system and a communication terminal communicating with the remote server. The communication terminal includes an operation company end, a freight principal client and a freight carrier client connected by virtue of an internet. The logistics transportation management system includes a control module, a customer management unit connected with the control module, a freight information management unit, a value-added-service unit and a settlement management unit. Value-added services are provided to customers through the value-added-service unit for earning service fees for realizing profit. Through a freight platform ecosphere constructedby the mode, collaborative integration of platform user logistics, business flow, capital flow and information flow is realized, and demand of different customers is satisfied.

A mine transportation management system capable of reducing cost by reducing the number of transportation vehicles is provided. For this purpose, the system includes a plurality of self-propelled vehicles and a plurality of vessels each having a communication section, and each being identifiable, which are connectable to and separable from each other. A loading machine having a communication section, which loads an object into at least one of the vessels. A management center, which has a communication section, selects a vessel to be transported and selects a self-propelled vehicle for transporting the selected vessel based on a transportation demand signal from a processing facility, and transmits a transportation command signal to the selected self-propelled vehicle to connect to the selected vessel and to travel to the processing facility.

A shipping management system includes one or more computer systems coupled to a network and a data storage device. The shipping management system uses one or more ingest modules to collect shipping information from the computer systems of multiple carriers. The shipping management system uses one or more normalization modules to normalize carrier specific data. The shipping management system uses one or more prediction modules to analyze the normalized shipping information using a set of prediction rules. The shipping management system identifies carrier exceptions and generates predicted exceptions based on the normalized shipping information. The shipping management system can selectively generate notifications, take actions, and / or resolve identified and generated exceptions.