Abstract
The contemporary economy is characterised by a high degree of reliance on modern technologies and information systems. Modern technologies have become a source of innovativeness and a tool for building competitive advantage across all sectors of the market, including transportation. Such technologies as telematics, RFID and GPS/GPRS have contributed to the development of transport systems. Information logistics is crucial in order for the modern technologies to be utilised effectively in transportation. This necessity is driven by the fact that information is a type of resource and hence requieres adequate logistics. The same applies to intermodal transport, where it is vital to manage the stores of information appropriately and efficiently through well organised logistics. This article discusses logistics of information as one of the key auxiliaries to intermodal transport. It also outlines an innovative approach to information as viewed from the perspective of domestic railway companies, which may benefit from implementing information logistics in order to utilise such assets as railway infrastructure, supply trains, train stations, sidetracks and ground adjacent to railtracks. This, in turn, will allow them to transition from being traditional transport suppliers to the rank of logistics integrators responsible for handling intermodal transport. The authors elaborate on the possible functional mechanisms of an intermodal transport market whose management and supervision is assumed by a domestic railway service supplier, thereby becoming an integrator of logistics for intermodal transport whose operating draws on information flows between operators working in different sectors of transport.
Highlights
The contemporary economy forces businesses into searching for new, often innovative and above all economically more viable theories and practices of organizing logistics
What characterizes the type of information that companies use these days is the necessity for it to be handled by means of information and informational systems, which lie at the core of the system of logistics
The advancement of computer systems and networks has created a specific environment for the growth of information logistics across all sectors of trade and economy
Summary
The contemporary economy forces businesses into searching for new, often innovative and above all economically more viable theories and practices of organizing logistics. The ideas and conceptions created by logisticians have been a major contributor in implementing IT tools in transport and within logistics in general While these tools do play a vital role in transportation by car and by air, the theories founded within these sectors are being increasingly employed in maritime and railway transport. It is important, to create new implementations for IT tools and logistics especially in the domain of the development of intermodal transport. The purpose of this article is to delineate an outline of how the already existing IT tools may be used for the growth of the branches of intermodal transport
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