WEB-Enabled Solution For Supporting Small Hauliers Collaboration
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Small hauliers enterprises are ever more requested to work
with very fragmented freights that have to be delivered in
a continuously decreasing time. Besides, their monitoring
capabilities are not compliant with the market requests, that asks
for continuous freight updates. Small hauliers are still not able to
efficiently monitor their trucks and to organise their freights so
that it is possible to optimise the load composition, reducing costs
and increasing quality. Thus, it seems to be necessary a certain
degree of collaboration with other small hauliers in order to gain
the necessary business competitiveness.
We here describe a “Virtual Fleet" WEB based service where
small and independent hauliers share some resources (trucks) in
order to reduce time wastes and costs. They can asks for goods
delivery or declare their free resources to the Virtual Fleet.
A WWW site collects the requests/declaration and computes the
optimal plan to be proposed to the Virtual Fleet and negotiated
among hauliers.
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