Construction of a Railway Freight Tracking Inquiry System
Lu Ren · 2014
A strategic shift from transportation services to logistics services is one way to achieve leapfrog development of the railway. Providing comprehensive logistics information services has become the core element of competition of vital freight operations. Information on cargo tracking customer enquiries is greatly needed. Existing cargo tracking systems are mostly based on a global positioning system and a globe tracking system, which are combined with a radio electronic label achieved. Some of our large-scale logistics enterprises have achieved the use of GPS for position tracking. However, most of our small- and medium-sized logistics enterprises cannot use GPS due to lack of funds. To improve the competition of enterprises and provide better customer service, they use RF for tracking goods. At the present stage, China railway only realizes the large nodes track of freight vehicles. In the real sense, there is quite some distance to go to realize the querying and tracking of cargo. Based on the in-depth study of the process of railway freight transportation, we can discuss feasible schemes for the inquiries of freight tracking.