- To improve the international logistics networks, essential to managing and controlling the flow of goods. It is impossible to accomplish any international trading, global export/import processes, international repositioning of raw materials/products and manufacturing without a professional logistical support.
All, in all, technical progress in industrial transport is taking several directions. The organization of operations is being improved by introducing integrated production technology regulating the entire production process, including operations performed by industrial transport. The operation of industrial transport is being more closely coordinated with mainline transport. New ways of organizing rail and motor vehicle, air and road transport are being developed by combining these types of transport into large industrial enterprises. Automatic control is being introduced in industrial transport as a subsystem of the enterprise’s automatic control system. Other new trends include the mechanization and automation of handling operations; the introduction of new technology, notably continuous transport; the scientific organization of labor; and the dissemination of know-how and scientific and technological advances.
The example of technological progress is intelligent transportation system. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are advanced applications which, without embodying intelligence as such, aim to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable various users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and 'smarter' use of transport networks.
Fig.1.3 Intelligence transportation system