Transportation Management Systems

RESEARCH CONTENT: Advances in technology have led to  safety and comfort features being added to vehicles, with ambitious plans for driverless cars and other connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) systems being developed. This article looks at some of the requirements, constraints and challenges, including two areas of uncertainty: data and software updates.

Posted: 14 Jul 2020 | Published: 14 Jul 2020

RESEARCH CONTENT: Existing attacks and risk assessment frameworks within civilian autonomous vehicles (AVs) can be used to review security of military AVs deployed for logistics purposes in a desert warzone environment.

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 | Published: 14 Jul 2020

WHITE PAPER: Even with near limitless intermodal options, planners typically fall back on familiar routes and patterns – regardless of whether or not there's a better way to operate. Fortunately, this resource lays out three smart moves that slash intermodal costs while delivering real planning transparency.

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 | Published: 31 Mar 2014

CASE STUDY: Read on to find out who D.W. Morgan, a global organization responsible for the transportation of critical inventory for multinational companies, partnered up with to radically optimize its already existing mobile logistics application, ChaninLinq.

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 | Published: 14 Jun 2013

CASE STUDY: Southland Transportation, providing school bus and other transportation services, deployed BlackBerry® smartphones, with a custom-built application, to their drivers so they can report road conditions and delays quickly and easily providing timely and accurate updates for everyone.

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 | Published: 25 Feb 2009

EGUIDE: In this expert-guide, learn how one telematics firm is putting IoT to work using roaming networks to deliver connectivity not only in their native UK, but across Europe. Then, read about how big data gained from IoT devices is helping to paint a more three-dimensional portrait of the transportation industry.

Posted: 14 Aug 2017 | Published: 09 Aug 2017

RESOURCE: A huge amount of applications are now built with open source components, but what affects does this open source code use have on your apps later on down the line? Take a look at this guide, Open Source Compliance, Security, & Risk Best Practices to learn how to monitor your open source code and make sure you're using it safely.

Posted: 23 Apr 2020 | Published: 23 Apr 2020

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, after the storms that swept across the UK, we look at the technology behind Weather Source's meteorological data service. Oracle and SAP are battling over customers to upgrade their ERP systems to the cloud. And we report from the world's biggest retail tech show.

Posted: 21 Feb 2020 | Published: 25 Feb 2020

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, we examine how datacentres and their workers became part of our critical national infrastructure due to the pandemic. Firms considering upgrading to SAP S/4 Hana face hefty bills – we look at how to keep costs down. And we analyse the increasing rate of applications being migrated to the cloud. Read the issue now.

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 | Published: 18 Aug 2020

WHITE PAPER: Access this Gartner white paper to see their Magic Quadrant which evaluates the strengths and cautions of the leading application performance monitoring vendors.

Posted: 14 Sep 2020 | Published: 22 Apr 2020