Modern Information Technologies (IT) have a substantial impact on the field of transport and logistics since they facilitate processes such as managing and monitoring of cargo flows. In inland navigation on the Danube, for the purposes of supporting the traffic and transport management, the River Information Services (RIS) are deployed. However, the existing RIS applications still focus very much on the safety of inland navigation without including the logistics services to the participants in the supply chain (SC). Within this paper, the analysis of all inland waterway SC integrated processes, involved subjects, their organizational, functional and informational network has been carried out. Additionally, the analysis of the existing internal IT systems in the SC nodes, particularly in the inland waterway ports was conducted. Based on the analysis, the concept and the algorithm with all necessary procedures for the paperless flows of information and documents have been determined. Upon the concept and the algorithm, the software for the networking of all SC subjects and for enabling the paperless flows of information and documents among them has been developed. The software was tested in the Port of Novi Sad. The tests results confirmed all assumptions regarding the software potential and expected benefits, proofing for the software to be future-oriented tool whose further development and application should take place in the cloud.
Networking of Information Flows—Improved Concept for the Inland Waterway Transport on the Danube
Lect. Notes Logistics
2015-07-16
12 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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