It is becoming more and more necessary, but also more complex to realize improvements within the transport of freight. Increasing pressure from society on freight transport and a (foreseen) growth of the volume of cargo transport are the most important drivers for this required change and improvement. Improvements are mainly gained by tuning activities between parties. Information exchange supports this. However, regarding the fact that there already are many partial systems and that the diversity of the transport world is large, it is important that one common environment is being created. An architecture is, first of all, an effective way to develop such an environment, in which parties in traffic, transport, transport logistics and enforcement tune their activities with each other. Within this environment, partial systems can cooperate in one environment and legacy systems can be adjusted and new systems can be developed in such a way that they fit into this environment. Architecture development should therefore be aimed at realizing improvements that are desired by society (commercial and policy world), from high level objectives up to data and technology. It is recommended to stimulate this development by getting authoritative parties together to develop a multi modal architecture; existing architectures such as RIS (River Information Services) can be used as a guide. Setting up pilots in which specific improvements are realized and adopted by individual business systems, will stimulate the required involvement of the relevant parties. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting