Optimization of Freight Capacity Management and

 Optimization of Freight Capacity Management and Goods Tracking System for Road Haulage Companies MAGO Research for SMEs Associations Call FP 7‐SME‐2008‐2 Name of the coordinating person: Wendy Moreno Peña List of participants: Participant no. Participant organisation name Acronym 1 (Coordinator) 2 Role Country MOV ITENE RTD RTD Spain Spain 3 APIF MOVIQUITY S.A Instituto tecnológico de embalaje, transporte y logística WSP UK Ltd WSP RTD 4 SRDC LTD SRDC RTD United Kingdom Turkey 5 ACTLOG SME Turkey 6 Action Logistics And International Transportation BETASPED dooel BETASPED SME Macedonia 7 Correlation Systems Ltd CORRELSYS SME Israel 8 Car Volum CVOLUM SME Spain Abstract The SMEs prevail in transport sector, but commonly they do not have an enough large trade relationships with other transport companies to make cabotage business, which causes the waste of the trucks capacity in the most of their journeys. Besides the nature of some goods required and the driving of trucks brings paths and timetables restrictions depending on the countries crossed. In view of that, MAGO’s project goal is to research and develop an innovative interactive platform through the research of different business models in the road haulage value chain –
with the help of the SMEs Associations of Transport mediation ‐ to make digital trade agreements with the aim of dynamically interchange or transfer the load among different HGVs. The platform will allow SMEs Road Freight Transport Companies and drivers to track other hauliers’ location and the identification of the freight they are transporting in the meanwhile of the trade operation, in order to provide trustworthiness and reliability to the users guaranteeing the quality of service. This will provide an easy and dynamical optimization of the capacity and the resource management of SMEs by boosting the interrelationships among the professional and SMEs companies in the road transport sector. Additionally MAGO will facilitate hauliers’ activity with the research of an auto‐configurable information system to be aware about the transport regulations of the EU countries and to calculate the optimum route according the restrictions imposed by the countries crossed. Consequently, fully exploiting haulage storage capacity as well as optimizing routes selection will entail a sustainable development, favouring the economy of the SMEs, and avoiding empty trips which cause unnecessary accidents and gas emissions. To tackle all the objectives and challenges of MAGO project, gathering the interest of the SMEs from the Sector, and really having an impact on the negative effects that causes the lack of capacity and logistics management (environmental problems, transport costs, lack of competiveness of the SMEs, etc), it is indispensable to count in the project with big representatives of the SMEs from the road transport and logistics sector. This means, Associations with enough weigh to influence to a large number of SMEs from all EU and to represent the hauliers’ and all the stakeholders interests. In this sense, MAGO consortium consists of potential user’s SMEs Associations (ADL,…) and SMEs (HGV companies) from Spain, Italy, Turkey, Macedonia, and a Logistic Services Provider SME from Israel and a Logistic Development Association interested to exploit the platform among its clients, will be also involved to bring technology closer to small companies, and to tailor the system to the user’s requirements. Besides specialists in telecommunication technologies and professional experts with a wide experience in the road freight transport sector and mobile technologies are involved in the project in order to perform suitable Research & Development activities. Contact Person for this search:
Teresa Alamós Miró ([email protected])