THE FUTURE IS YELLOW
With the dynamic taking into consideration prevailing traffic conditions, the SmartTruck is prepared for any situation and can react accordingly. In addition, yet more intelligent technologies are built into this innovative project.
Today delivery routes are planned based on static communities and unforeseeable factors such as traffic congestions or road construction sites cannot be taken into consideration in the route planning. The project SmartTruck is working on intelligent vehicles and more dynamic route planning.
To this end, a new kind of telematics software has been developed. SmartTrucks are intelligent vehicles which are able to monitor their consignments by means of RFID. Taking into consideration the prevailing traffic conditions allows a real-time route planning and thus a more efficient control of DHL delivery vehicles.
This makes even a rendezvous management possible; whereby consignments between two couriers are exchanged during a route in order to have them arrive at their destination as swiftly and efficiently as possible.
The optimization of delivery routes and vehicle capacities lowers resource consumption along with lowering transport costs and CO2 emissions will also be reduced. Consequently DHL can respond to customer assignments with greater flexibility, because the whole planning process has been expedited.
In the first quarter of 2009, a three-month pilot experiment is planned in Berlin which is intended to demonstrate the economic viability these intelligent delivery vehicles are targeting. After a successful conclusion of this event, an expansion of this solution is planned.
SmartTruck: The greener and brighter way
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