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• Compendium
• on NAS Waterborne
• TMS and FTMS

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• Particularities of TMS and FTMS on NAS Waterborne

• Initialy, the NAS systems were conceived in
  research institutes in an integrated view and
  having as objective the vertical and horizontal,
  national and international co-operation.
• TMS and FTMS implementation were separately and
  partially achieved.
• Although the implemented system do not
  communicate between them, there is the
  possibility to connect them in the future.
• Its missing the sub-system of strategic planning
  especially for infrastructure. The implemented
  projects are focused on real time surveying of
  ships movement or day to day management.
• The core objective of TMS and ICT in NAS is to
  bring in information for intelligent management
  of transport systems in order to achieve the
  efficiency and quality criteria settled by
  transport policy and strategies. In this
  approaching, the ITS represent only a part of
  general management system.
• Main barriers in the way of system achievement,
  were low financial resources and users
  conservatism.

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• Particular characteristics of waterborne TMS in
  NAS

• Although the TMS realized in NAS started as VTS,
  their further development were oriented to VTMIS,
  fact which is still going on.
• There are focused on safe and request, traffic
  survey, environment protection, requirements
  generated by the international conventions
  (Marpol, Solas etc.).
• The implementation began with obsolete technology
  and continued with modern technologies from
  well-known suppliers.
• Incomplete implementation depending on the
  available financial resources.
• System are open to vertical and horizontal
  communications.
• Normally a VTMIS for certain port is designed
  taking into consideration a larger view on the
  maritime area and the policy of cooperation and
  integration with other systems.
• The system integrators and suppliers which
  implement the waterborne TMS in NAS are well
  known through their previous similar achievements
  on international market.

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• Particular characteristics of waterborne FTMS in
  NAS

• They are generated by IST national programs.
• Initially, they were emphasized on passive and
  local statistical databases.
• Applications at end-users, which shouldemploy the
  data available in the system, are still missing.
• There is an important growth of ICT, especially
  after the liberalization of telecommunication
  market in NAS. As a consequence of communication
  infrastructure development, there is a great
  demand for FTMS.
• There is a tendency to revise the existing
  systems taking into account new users
  requirements. The great pressure is coming from
  the new logistics service providers which
  generate new supply chains, due to
• Restructuring of NAS national economies some
  industries are decreasing and other are
  increasing in correlation with European markets.
• The strategic investors introduce the NAS
  companies, which they bought, in new logistics
  chains at European level.
• Big producers and distribuitors are coming on NAS
  market and ask for complex international
  logistics.
• The comparative advantages between different
  European areas generate new logistic flows at
  continental scale

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• Future driving forces

• Logistics integrators as main users.
• European integration of NAS.
• Implementation of international conventions.
• E-Commerce, E-Logistics. Logistics users require
  system integration in order to achieve their
  logistics chain SCM (logistics approach).
• Liberalization of trade and transports.
• Intermodality

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• Objectives and functions

Same as member states, but concerning the FTMS in
NAS there are supplementary reasons

• There is a technological lag to recover between
  NAS and member states
• The geographical location of NAS at the
  crossroads of very different transport systems
  which are in rehabilitation and development
• The European enlargement means also the
  harmonization of transport management rules,
  procedures and systems
• The pan-European corridors which transit the NAS
  asks for information coherence
• On the top of the list is policy integration,
  simple because, this is an active mechanism which
  decides upon the achievement of the other
  criteria.

It is necessary to build a management policy of
TMS/FTMS integration process. Next we try to
locate the integrators and to define the
integration criteria to be used by them.
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• Integrators

• Ships. We consider three management centers on
  board of ship.

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• Integrators

• Ports, logistics centres

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• Integrators

• Policy makers.
• Telematics networks.
• Freight units, load units.
• Hazmat.
• Logistics patterns

• International legislation concerning dangerous
  cargoes based on the IMO-IMDG Code and other
  international codes which amplify and extend this
  code
• International Bulk Chemical Code
• Bulk Chemical Handling Code
• Gas-carrier Code
• Solas/Marpol Regulations etc

• Two categories of logistics integrators
• physical integrators (logistics centres,
  warehouses, distribution centres)
• conceptual, virtual, logistics integrators which
  realise the dynamic integration of TMS and FTMS
  (customer relationship management, enterprise
  resource planning, supply chain management,
  cross-docking, outsourcing, strategic logistics,
  leading-edge logistics etc)

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• Integration criteria

Policy

• Policy integration
• A pro-active strategy for TMS and FTMS
  integration.
• PPP.
• Government / labor partnership.

Definition and Models

• Need for the definition of TMS, FMS and TMS/FMS
  integration on modal and intermodal levels.
• The integration must be realized at different
  levels
• Networking
• Integration on the best technology basis.

• physical objects are moving (vehicle, unitized
  loads etc.)
• logistical values are moving (SCM, the
  integration of trade and logistics chains).

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• Integration criteria

• To use the opportunity to integrate the
  regulatory and commercial functions of logistics
  chains
• Interoperability is the key issue for modal
  integration of different TMS or FMS, both at
  infrastructure and functional levels
• The integrated TMS / FMS are very large systems.

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• Integration criteria

Geographical cooperation and integration
Safety, Quality, Sustainable mobility
Rules and Conventions
Logistics

• New logistics patterns.
• New user requirements.
• Trade and logistics facilitation.
• E-commerce and E-logistics.

Market

• The integration of TMS and FMS must facilitate
  the contestability of the supply chains.
• The support systems must be useful for different
  users (shipping companies, port operators etc.)
  on non-discriminatory basis.
• To use TMS and FMS could be realized on
  infrastructure charging principleaccordind to EU
  documents.
• Business process re-engineering, new business
  models, changing markets.

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• Examples of business cases for TMS/FMS integration

Ro1 - Cooperation between rail integrated system
Iris and freight management system of Constantza
port information system Neptun
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• Examples of business cases for TMS/FMS integration

Ro2 - Cooperation between VTMIS Constantza and
port informationsystem Neptun in Constantza port
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• Examples of business cases for TMS/FMS integration

Ro3 - Cooperation between VTMIS Constantza and
VTM Danube-Black Sea Canal
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• Main Findings

• Modal and cross-modes integration must be the
  ideal goal, starting with existing systems and
  passing through overlapping and cooperation of
  TMS and FTMS.
• There is a mutual stimulation between the
  integration of TMS and FTMS and the intermodality
  plus the modal and multimodal co-operation of
  transport modes.
• The customers must have in right time and at high
  accuracy the information about the market,
  transport operators and the other logistics
  service providers.
• The main barrier is the mentality of system
  operators and users.
• The port is a hub center for TMS-FTMS
  integration.
• TMS-FMS integration could be facilitate by
  technology provided by very important suppliers.
• Private sectors including SMEs could play an
  important role in implementing the value-added
  services generated by TMS-FTMS integration.
• The main benefits from TMS-FTMS integration are
  in the area of logistics, safety and environment.
• There are capabilities of the existing systems to
  interconect with other systems.
• The main organizational and legal measures are
  related to the interfaces to be realized in order
  to integrate existing systems and business
  process reengineering for future developed
  organizations and legal entities.

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• General conclusions

• TMS and FMS are large systems realized with the
  involvment of authorities.
• Authorities influence the integration of TMS and
  FTMS through the decision making process at the
  strategic level of infrastructure development.
• Private sector could and must participate on
  development and operation of IT infrastructure.
• Having both infrastructures integrated (for TMS
  and FTMS), all the applications implemented by
  users will cooperate on this basis.
• At macro-level it is necessary a network approach
  of TMS, FTMS and TMS/FTMS integration, for
  traffic and freight management resources
  accessing anywhere by any authorized users.

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