TS-107
Development of Transportation Management System for mobiles by use of Satellite Communication and GIS techniques
Takeyuki ONO*, Satoshi NAGAYA*
ABSTRACT
This paper introduces the development of the transportation management system, which realizes effective transportation by integrating sea and land. The transportation management system offers the transportation status to the transportation management companies, cargo owners, carriers, consignees, etc. on the basis of the data from mobiles under control such as ships and tucks, for the improvement of safety and efficiency of transportation. It also promotes rationalization of transportation by sharing information among the companies concerned such as cargo owners, carriers, management companies.
To configure the system, mobile packet communication technology (satellite basis and mobile-phone basis) and digital maps, which cover the whole sea and land, were applied.
The operation information of each mobile, such as position, speed, direction, ETA, etc. and other information such as destination, route, schedule, etc. to be shared bi-directionally among the mobiles and the companies concerned is transferred on real-time via the ship-shore communication satellite and/or mobile-phone.
The terminals of this system installed on ships, trucks and transportation management companies have display functionalities, of above information on the combined digital map of land and sea (electronic chart).
Moreover, real-time database technique and human interface by voice input/output has enabled the development of safe and efficient transportation management system. The function of the system was tested on real ships and trucks.
Key Words: GIS, Satellite Communication, Voice Input/Output Electronic Chart, Digital Map, Internet
1. INTRODUCTION
In the marine transportation industry, there has been a difficult situation because of aged seamen, and it is difficult to hand down the important technology such as maneuvering techniques to younger generations.
Therefore, members of the transportation industry have tried to solve these problems continuously and to apply the highly automated onboard system for saving manpower and realization of safety navigation. And they also made an effort to establish the standardized maneuvering procedures and an effective navigation support system.
So highly automated vessels that called the modernized vessel that can be sailed with a few crew has been in service recently. [1] Furthermore, the transportation management system by using the data communication between ship and shore has been introduced also. [2]
These systems are able to realize safety sailing and to improve efficiency for transpiration management work.
However, these systems and techniques are developed for ships and trucks independently.
And, the integrated transportation management system included whole transportation at sea and shore has not been developed.
So, we have developed the new transportation management system for seamless managing ships and trucks simultaneously.
We applied the latest packet data communication techniques by using of marine satellite telephone and mobile telephone.
New developed system has a database server in the new information management center to share the necessary information among concerned companies such as cargo owners, carriers and management companies.
In this paper, we introduce the new transportation management system for ship s and trucks in response to the trend of 'Modal Shift' [3][4]. The target of this system is coastal ships and domestic trucks.
This system is composed of following element technology.
・ Satellite packet communication
・ Digital map as human interface
・ Voice input/output technique as human interface
・ Internet
Fig.1 shows element technology of this system
* Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. LTD
Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works
1-1 Akunoura-machi, Nagasaki 850-8610, JAPAN
FAX: +81-95-828-5234
