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Optimizing Freight Flow: Strategies for the Trucking Industry

This document examines the challenges and inefficiencies in the trucking industry, including infrastructure issues, congestion, operational inefficiencies, and technology adoption barriers. It proposes solutions such as load consolidation, urban distribution centers, vehicle tracking systems, and route optimization through advanced planning systems. The benefits outlined include improved asset utilization, reduced costs, and enhanced customer satisfaction. Additionally, the document highlights the importance of real-time data for better decision-making and infrastructure planning in urban environments.

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Optimizing Freight Flow: Strategies for the Trucking Industry

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  1. IIT Mumbai –First and Last Leg Optimization CONFIDENTIAL May, 2012

  2. Freight Flow -1 Pickup Delivery

  3. CFS/ Destination Warehouse Destination Port Customers Freight Flow -2 Seller CFS Origin Port

  4. Freight Flow - 3

  5. Trucking Industry Level Challenges • Infrastructure Issues and Challenges • Congestion • Operational inefficiencies • Non standard trucks • Under utilization of infrastructure available. • Supply demand mismatch • Institutional Issues • Highly Fragmented industry • Manual, non-uniform or discrete processes across the industry • Non-availability of Quality manpower • Technological Issues • Old technology • Adoption of new technologies is expensive • No clear Return on Investments for New Technologies • Manual processes leading to operational inefficiencies

  6. Solutions and Strategies (Largely Capital intensive) • Vehicle Size and Delivery Time Regulations • Load Consolidation and Load Factor Efficiency (Load consolidation, or co-loading) • Urban Distribution Centers • Freight Villages - Different from urban distribution centers, but similar in concept. Freight villages are planned unit developments specifically designed for multi-modal freight transfer within a secured perimeter. • Delivery Tunnels - In Helsinki, freight tunnels for underground trucking are planned • Dedicated freight corridors – are they really helping urban areas ?

  7. Inefficiencies in the current process • Pickup driver has to visit the terminal to collect the list of pickups • Planning for linehaul, cross-docking, resource requirements, delivery plans etc are not possible till the goods reaches to the terminal • There is no update on the status of delivery till the driver reports back to the terminal. • This process is time consuming and lead to inefficiencies such as • missed pickups and missed appointments, • excessive waiting times during pickups and deliveries resulting in additional driver hours and under utilization of trucks • postponing pickups • additional kilometers operated by drivers thus additional fuel consumption and choking of traffic • no clue on the traffic situation on the network – no route guidance

  8. Solution Components and Business Model • Solution Components • Vehicle Tracking System - Telematics • Pickup and Delivery Management System – to plan the pickups and deliveries • Handheld Mobile devices – Scanner, data logger etc • Route Planner to generate optimal routes • Central Server and communication systems • Transportation Management System • Platform based solution • Benefits • From Trucking companies Perspective • Trucking company can register with minimum fee • Trucking companies can pay as per use • Opex and No capital investments – Transaction based • Can withdraw when not required • No technology skills required • Improved visibility of shipments, high asset utilisation, less fuel costs and customer satisfaction • From Service Provider perspective • Multiple trucking companies can be hosted on single software platform. • Other services such as reports, performance indicators can be sold as value added services • From City/Governance perspective • Less Pollution and congestion • Real time and accurate data for traffic alerts • Trustworthy and huge volume of data for / Freight Modelling/ infrastructure planning and real time decisions

  9. Overview – An example for Auto Route Generation 9

  10. As-Is Routes • Features considered • Routes are planned for a region. • A truck will be assigned/reserved for route • Static route is generated by the route planner • Dispatcher assigns new stops to the route manually as and when new orders are to be handled Parameters for comparison 10

  11. To-Be Routes • Features considered • No region based routes • Routes will be developed as per the order/stop locations • Algorithm based route generation • Optimises the number of trucks required rather than the truck-km Parameters for comparison 11

  12. Data for Analysis • Available Data for Analysis • Driver Data • Equipment Data • Order Data • Trip Data • Stop Data (including Stop to Stop Distance Data) • Output Expected • Optimized Route with route parameters 12

  13. Business Benefits • Reduced P&D Costs (They represent around 30% of total cost in the case of road based movement) • Improved Route Planning • Effective Equipment utilization • Effective Utilization of Drivers 13

  14. Thank You http://www.tcs.com CONFIDENTIAL May, 2012

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