A REAL TIME FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM VIA GIS/GPS PLATFORM
R-M Wang · 1998
Though the concept of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has been widespread for many years in Taiwan, the monopoly of communication market by the government regulations have seriously deterred the ITS implements until December, 1997. Various researches devoted to the field of real time fleet dispatching and management systems via traditional RF, trunking radio and mobile data communication in Taiwan, yet few of them could be possibly implemented due to the shortage of wireless communication services and copyright issue regarding electronic map database. This paper presents a successful real time fleet management system via a GIS/GPS platform, that employs an island-wide trunking radio communication service system and 1:5000 scale electronic map database. The system has been adapted to be used in freight forwarding business, where the cargo trucks are monitored and dispatched by their superintendents in a real time manner. For the covering abstract see IRRD E102946.