RFID technology application in container transportation

Author

Wang, Wei ; Fan, Shidong

Author_Institution

Shanghai Maritime Acad., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

Firstpage

639

Lastpage

642

Abstract

Container transportation plays an important role in modern transportation owing to its characteristics of high efficiency, convenience and safety. The informationization of container transportation management has become a necessary development of the container transportation. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a useful technology to improve container transportation efficiency, safety and visibility. In this paper, RFID technology is briefly introduced at the beginning. Then, RFID application in container transportation management is mainly discussed based on a port container vehicle management case and instances. At the end, analysis of two kinds of chances, including standards of RFID system and utilization cost, are presented.

Keywords

freight handling; radiofrequency identification; container transportation management; port container vehicle management; radiofrequency identification; Containers; Costs; Logistics; Modems; Radio spectrum management; Radiofrequency identification; Safety; Supply chains; Transportation; Vehicles; Radio Frequency Identification (RFID); container transportation management; port container vehicle management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing (JCPC), 2009 Joint Conferences on

Conference_Location

Tamsui, Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5227-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5228-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JCPC.2009.5420106

Filename

5420106