Freight Logistics System for Real-Time Cargo Assignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current freight transportation systems do not effectively internalize external costs, leading to environmental concerns such as pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and lack efficient methods to assign shipping consignments to transporters based on their travel plans.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a physical kiosk, control circuit, and geolocation device that maintains databases of transporter and shipping package profiles, allowing for real-time identification and dispatch of suggested shipping packages to transporters based on their scheduled travel events and shipping package requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If freight transportation systems operate without effective assignment optimization, then transporters can complete their scheduled travel events, but external costs such as pollution and greenhouse gas emissions increase due to inefficient routing and empty cargo space
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by maintaining databases of transporter profiles with scheduled travel events and shipping package profiles with shipping events, and proactively identifying suggested shipping packages for transporters before they arrive at transport terminals, thereby optimizing cargo assignment in advance and reducing empty cargo space and emissions
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses geolocation devices to calculate real-time absolute positions of transporters and estimate their time of arrival at transport terminals, providing continuous feedback that enables dynamic optimization of shipping package assignments and improves freight transportation efficiency while reducing external costs
2Productivity
If the system identifies and dispatches suggested shipping packages in real-time based on transporter travel plans, then freight transportation efficiency improves, but the complexity of the system increases due to databases, control circuits, and geolocation tracking
Solution Approach 1:
The control circuit performs multiple functions including maintaining databases of transporter and shipping package profiles, identifying suggested shipping packages by comparing scheduled events, receiving geolocation data, calculating arrival times, and dispatching packages, thereby reducing the need for separate dedicated systems for each function and managing complexity through multi-functionality
Data Source
AI summary
A system described herein comprises a database of transporter profiles, a database of shipping package profiles, a control circuit, a geolocation device, and a physical kiosk. The transporter profiles comprise scheduled travel events associated therewith, and the transporter profiles being associated with transporters. The shipping packages comprises scheduled shipping events. The control circuit is operable to identify one or more suggested shipping packages for a transporter, based in part, on comparisons between the one or more scheduled travel events of a transporter profile associated with the transporter and the one or more scheduled shipping events of the shipping packages. The geolocation device is operable to calculate in real-time an absolute position of a transporter computing device associated with the transporter and estimate time of arrival of the transporter at a transport terminal. The physical kiosk delivers the suggested shipping packages prior to the transporter arriving at the transport terminal.