Smart ICTs for the enhancement of traffic logistics in the Port of Seville

Las ponencias del congreso pueden descargarse desde: http://www.pianc.org.ar/_stage/papers_in.phpThis paper focuses in the optimization of intermodal transport by the development of a freight geolocation and telecontrol platform for intermodal transport. This system, Cooperative Unitized Tracking System (CUTS), is being developed under the project TECNOPORT2025, which is an initiative of the Port Authority of Seville (PAS), co-funded by the European Commission by means of the ERDF (European Region Development Funds), under the Pre-commercial Public Procurement model aiming the “Port of Future”

Seaport Data Space for Improving Logistic Maritime Operations

[EN] The maritime industry expects several improvements to efficiently manage the operation processes by introducing Industry 4.0 enabling technologies. Seaports are the most critical point in the maritime logistics chain because of its multimodal and complex nature. Consequently, coordinated communication among any seaport stakeholders is vital to improving their operations. Currently, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Port Community Systems (PCS), as primary enablers of digital seaports, have demonstrated their limitations to interchange information on time, accurately, efficiently, and securely, causing high operation costs, low resource management, and low performance. For these reasons, this contribution presents the Seaport Data Space (SDS) based on the Industrial Data Space (IDS) reference architecture model to enable a secure data sharing space and promote an intelligent transport multimodal terminal. Each seaport stakeholders implements the IDS connector to take part in the SDS and share their data. On top of SDS, a Big Data architecture is integrated to manage the massive data shared in the SDS and extract useful information to improve the decision-making. The architecture has been evaluated by enabling a port authority and a container terminal to share its data with a shipping company. As a result, several Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have been developed by using the Big Data architecture functionalities. The KPIs have been shown in a dashboard to allow easy interpretability of results for planning vessel operations. The SDS environment may improve the communication between stakeholders by reducing the transaction costs, enhancing the quality of information, and exhibiting effectivenessThis work was supported in part by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme through the PIXEL Port Project under Grant 769355, and in part by the Secretaria Nacional de Educacion Superior, Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion (SENESCYT), EcuadorSarabia-Jácome, D.; Palau Salvador, CE.; Esteve Domingo, M.; Boronat, F. (2019). Seaport Data Space for Improving Logistic Maritime Operations. IEEE Access. 8:4372-4382. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2963283S43724382

Safe Intelligent Driver Assistance System in V2X Communication Environments based on IoT

In the modern world, power and speed of cars have increased steadily, as traffic continued to increase. At the same time highway-related fatalities and injuries due to road incidents are constantly growing and safety problems come first. Therefore, the development of Driver Assistance Systems (DAS) has become a major issue. Numerous innovations, systems and technologies have been developed in order to improve road transportation and safety. Modern computer vision algorithms enable cars to understand the road environment with low miss rates. A number of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs), Vehicle Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) have been applied in the different cities over the world. Recently, a new global paradigm, known as the Internet of Things (IoT) brings new idea to update the existing solutions. Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communication based on IoT technologies would be a next step in intelligent transportation for the future Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV). The overall purpose of this research was to come up with a scalable IoT solution for driver assistance, which allows to combine safety relevant information for a driver from different types of in-vehicle sensors, in-vehicle DAS, vehicle networks and driver`s gadgets. This study brushed up on the evolution and state-of-the-art of Vehicle Systems. Existing ITSs, VANETs and DASs were evaluated in the research. The study proposed a design approach for the future development of transport systems applying IoT paradigm to the transport safety applications in order to enable driver assistance become part of Internet of Vehicles (IoV). The research proposed the architecture of the Safe Intelligent DAS (SiDAS) based on IoT V2X communications in order to combine different types of data from different available devices and vehicle systems. The research proposed IoT ARM structure for SiDAS, data flow diagrams, protocols. The study proposes several IoT system structures for the vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-vehicle collision prediction as case studies for the flexible SiDAS framework architecture. The research has demonstrated the significant increase in driver situation awareness by using IoT SiDAS, especially in NLOS conditions. Moreover, the time analysis, taking into account IoT, Cloud, LTE and DSRS latency, has been provided for different collision scenarios, in order to evaluate the overall system latency and ensure applicability for real-time driver emergency notification. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed SiDAS improves traffic safety

Deregulation of the Liner Conference System: The Creation of Countervailing Power in Shippers as a Means to Control Oligopoly Market Power

The United States liner industry, both in its competitive rate struc- ture and in the competitiveness of United States based flag companies, has been declining for at least the past decade. This decline has prompted policymakers to propose that the United States liner confer- ence system be deregulated. Generally, two themes underlie these pro- posals: an elimination or weakening and streamlining of the regulatory powers of the Federal Maritime Commission (the United States is one of the few nations with a regulatory agency exclusively devoted to regulat- ing the conference system), and a strengthening of the conferences\u27 anti- trust immunity. Because such legislation is antithetical to traditional concepts of United States domestic competition policy, previous Con- gresses failed to enact reform legislation. On March 20, 1984, however, President Reagan signed the Shipping Act of 1984, which comprehen- sively restructured the United States maritime laws. While this Act culminates seven years of attempted maritime reform by the Congress, it is compromise legislation, merely a step toward a more fundamental re- thinking of United States maritime policy. The Act authorizes the crea- tion of a Presidential Advisory Commission at the end of this decade that will ascertain the need to further strengthen the conference system and reform the United States regulatory policy. This article addresses one of the concerns of opponents to such re- form measures: the protection of shippers\u27 interests through the creation of shippers\u27 councils. These councils, which would enjoy an antitrust exemption that would permit them to either consult or negotiate general service and rate issues with conferences, exist in a number of other na- tions. United States proponents of these councils generally perceive them as a countervailing power to strong conferences, supplanting, to a certain degree, the role of the antitrust laws in protecting the interests of shippers and ensuring economic efficiency in the conference system. Af- ter a survey of current industry conditions, this author concludes that 1) the proposals previously considered by the Congress are inadequate for the creation of these councils; 2) based upon prior experience under similar legislation, these councils would probably not form even if given antitrust immunity; and 3) reliance on the creation of export trading companies under the Export Trading Company Act of 1982, combined with the shippers\u27 associations provisions of the Shipping Act of 1984

High-Level Information Fusion in Visual Sensor Networks

Information fusion techniques combine data from multiple sensors, along with additional information and knowledge, to obtain better estimates of the observed scenario than could be achieved by the use of single sensors or information sources alone. According to the JDL fusion process model, high-level information fusion is concerned with the computation of a scene representation in terms of abstract entities such as activities and threats, as well as estimating the relationships among these entities. Recent experiences confirm that context knowledge plays a key role in the new-generation high-level fusion systems, especially in those involving complex scenarios that cause the failure of classical statistical techniques –as it happens in visual sensor networks. In this chapter, we study the architectural and functional issues of applying context information to improve high-level fusion procedures, with a particular focus on visual data applications. The use of formal knowledge representations (e.g. ontologies) is a promising advance in this direction, but there are still some unresolved questions that must be more extensively researched.The UC3M Team gratefully acknowledges that this research activity is supported in part by Projects CICYT TIN2008-06742-C02-02/TSI, CICYT TEC2008-06732-C02-02/TEC, CAM CONTEXTS (S2009/TIC-1485) and DPS2008-07029-C02-02

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