Mobile data communications MDC and electronic data interchange EDI applications in small and medium size road transport operations in Europe : the METAFORA pilots.

Author(s)
Evmolpidis, V. & Hel, W. van der
Year
Abstract

The main objective of the METAFORA project was to test in actual operating conditions the applicability to small and medium size enterprises, of certain advanced telematic technologies: Mobile Data Communications (MDC), Tracing of unaccompanied unit loads, and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Although these technologies have been commercially available for quite some time their successful integration into a company's operations depends on a variety of technological, business and human factors that tend to be company or country specific. (A)

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C 10097 (In: C 9906 c [electronic version only]) /73 / IRRD 868721
Source

In: "Towards an intelligent transport system" : proceedings of the first world congress on applications of transport telematics and Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems IVHS, Palais de Congrès de Paris, France, 30 November - 3 December 1994, Volume 3, p. 1500-1507

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