The article considers the basic functionality of a hazardous goods (HG) monitoring and control system to integrate freight and fleet management systems and traffic management systems in a multimodal environment. Basic problems that occur during development and integration are a lack of openness of current freight and fleet management systems; data privacy and data security issues; non-alignment of regulations between European countries; language barriers; and non-existing regulations regarding HG systems. In essence, an HG system needs to provide a functional framework in which the above-mentioned problems are solved. The five main functionalities of the system are: (1) Monitoring of transport operations; (2) Management of transport operations; (3) Incident alert management; (4) Access control of traffic; and (5) Hazardous goods data management. Central in the functionality of the system is the hazardous goods data management. This function collects all relevant information on the hazardous loads, their chemical characteristics, and positions of the loads, and provides this information to the administrative user.
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