Freight resource management systems and applications deploy solutions for effective and
efficient use of resources supporting an organisation and focus on optimisation and execution
of resources supporting infrastructure, equipment and production, financial transactions,
human resources, transportation planning optimisation, vehicle routing and scheduling and
other. The objective of these applications is to achieve a match between supply (e.g. transport
orders) and demand (e.g. transport capacities including vehicles, drivers and related storage
areas) at minimum cost with information consolidation at the dispatchers site and the optimal
matching of orders to vehicles (TAP 2000). For example, the project F-MAN developed a
prototype of a telematics system that provides wagon position and status information to allow
the fleet manager (rail) to carry out an economic selection of “his” wagons and update that
decision if the wagon is delayed (F-MAN 2005). The MarNIS (MarNIS 2009) project
represents the Maritime Information Management and Maritime Operational Services
concepts for port traffic management, maritime operation services and maritime information
management.