ENISYS is a door-to-door transport concept, using waterborne transport as a key element. Transport Chain Management System (TCMS) is a system for managing multimodal transport operations efficiently. These two elements combined can be used to establish efficient door-to-door transport operations in regions where water transport is available, without relying on extensive use of land transport infrastructure. The underlying requirement for such a solution to work is that a number of transport users cooperate to develop one, common transport solution. If each transport user wants to develop individual solutions, such operations are based on individual sub-optimisation, and not on the best possible use of resources for the best of all involved and the environment. This paper illustrates the need for a harmonised development of the transport infrastructure, and the information systems needed to use the infrastructure properly (as seen form the transport user and operator). The combined ENISYS/TCMS development is therefore a good example of practical intelligent transportation systems (ITS) realisation. It is also an example showing that such development may be realised without governmental and other public involvement. (ENISYS is a purely industrial initiative).
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