With the industrial revolutions & the arrival of the internet, Transportation Management System is highly advance. Let’s take a look at transportation technologies and trends that are sure to impact the trucking and transportation industries forever.
Driver less vehicles:
Driver-less Vehicles are possible, like people or objects to a predetermined target with the help of internet, to detect environmental factor & drive safely without humans driving the car.
Self-driving vehicles have already proven their productivity in the transportation sector even if they are still being tested. Use of technology in supply chain management greatly increases your efficiency & improve the performance of the supply chain for businesses who wish to significantly reduce costs and other expenses.
In addition, driver-less vehicles allow a constant transportation & increase the real time availability of business in the delivery even on holidays. It reduce risk of accidents as no human error will be associated because of tiredness, loss of concentration or alcohol.
The Mole:
Although drone delivering via airspace, Mole Solutions are taking things below ground. The Mole is a concept developed in UK, and MOLE Underground Freight Pipeline concept is to move unitized or bulk goods in customized capsules travelling in dedicated sub-surface pipelines under full automatic control. The Mole is designed to delivering heavy & large items by courier to businesses and suppliers currently and the Mole has the potential to provide long-lasting benefits to cities suffering with high levels of congestion. Underground mail systems deliver packages to our door without the need for a mailman. In next future, mole system can streamline unveils autonomous parcel delivery process for parcels and post. If this system is successful, Mole’s influence could not only cut delivery costs but also traffic congestion.
Objects connected to the Internet:
In which Objects connected to the internet is technology Objects communicate with each other through cloud based GPS (Global Positioning System), radio frequency (RFID) and the company with which they transmit their location. It also monitor different environmental factors & temperature change. With the help of this there are less possibilities of good loss and damage. Using this system, the goods destined for different locations of each object in a warehouse and the identification of goods transported in real time are sent to the central office.
It allows increased visibility of transportation and a managed flow of goods in the supply chain which further allows faster sending of good. So, using this will increase customer satisfaction.