ITS JPO Lead: Kate Hartman
Technical Lead: Mike Onder, Office of Freight Management and Operations
Slide 2. Challenge
Current economic forecast indicate that freight volumes will double by 2020.
Existing and planned physical capacity to move this amount of freight will be severely challenged.
Freight movement is multi-modal, among partners with different with needs for information.
Slide 3. Opportunity
The activities under this initiative will:
Assist supply chain partners by using ITS to:
Exchange information electronically in a standardized format;
Provide an open architecture in which all shippers, across all modes can access needed information;
Allow information concerning freight to be made available for security screening
Slide 4. Goal
Improved operational efficiency, productivity and security of the transportation
system through the use of a common electronic freight management
(EFM) and message portal that enables access to shipment information
to all supply chain partners in real time.
Slide 5. Milestone/End Product
Initial Milestone: Can all supply chain partners integrate the EFM into their business processes? Do we go forward with the deployment test?
Initiative Milestone: Do we expand to other modes?