Intelligent Freight Transportation
Petros A. Ioannou, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Series: Automation and Control Engineering  Volume: 27  

About the Book:

  • Provides material on advanced technologies for container processing
  • Covers fully automated containers and explains cost and performance analysis
  • Discusses ports and container terminals, how they interact with surface transportation, and
    related security issues
  • Delineates new strategies for empty container reuse, truck routing, and dispatching to meet time
    constraints for service
  • Explores topics such as container terminals of the future, advanced processing technologies, and
    the gate appointment system
  • Includes near-term approaches promoted by practitioners and industry and longer-term ones
    considered by academia
  • Analyzes labor union issues from the point of view of a labor union activist and academic
  • Examines environmental issues associated with ports, ships and the logistics chain

Increasing capacity at ports and goods movement in the supply chain in general, while also satisfying
environmental, economic, political, labor union, and other constraints is, arguably, the greatest
challenge of modern transportation. With space at a premium and costs through the roof, it is
increasingly obvious that the traditional solutions are not feasible in the short- or even medium-term.
However, advances in information technology, telecommunications, data management, and computation
tools, coupled with recent research in systems optimization and control, may provide promising new
approaches.


Product Details
Hardback: 344 pp
Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
Date: 24/03/2008
ISBN: 9780849307706
ISBN 10: 0849307708
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Intelligent Freight Transportation
by Petros A. Ioannou    
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