Area wide hazardous goods monitoring on the TERN in Austria - project SHAFT

This paper deals with scribes actions involving the deployment of transport telematic technologies to efficiently handle hazardous and heavy goods transports in an efficient manner first of all in Austria. It focuses on the project SHAFT (standardized hazardous goods transport alerting field trail), which develops a prototype for the monitoring of hazardous goods over the whole Austrian road network. As its major achievement, SHAFT would provide a system concept that allows all involved authorities and operators to get information about the position and the status of each heavy goods truck (HGT) using the Austria roads.