6. Technological trends
The current application of ICT in multimodal transport and in freight transport in general is
largely supported by and dependent on a number of enabling technologies. Some of these
technological drivers such as transport management system (TMS) could be considered as
mature and well established in the commercial environment, while others are still emerging or
in their infancy. The majority of such technologies in the freight sector were developed in the
1990s and early 2000s (Perego et al. 2011), and form the core of current ICT applications
used in the field of transport (ENABLE 2010a).