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. |Intelligent Freight Transportation | Mechanical Engineering
