Overview

This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:

(1) A HMI for use by the Freight Management Operator.
(2) The ability of the Freight Management Operator to use the HMI to manage both the optimisation of the use of transport modes and the use of storage areas.

Functional Requirements

(a) continuously monitor for the receipt of the data flows containing request storage area use and freight transport optimisation data from the Freight Management Operator;
(b) when the first data flow in (a) is received, send its contents in the data flow storage area request data to the Book Storage Area function
(c) as a result of (b), continuously monitor for the receipt of the storage area request results data flow;
(d) when the data flow in (c) is received, output its contents to the Freight Management Operator in storage area request results data flow;
(e) when the second data flow in (a) is received, send its contents in the data for freight optimisation data flow to the Identify Possible Transport Optimisations function;
(f) as a result of (e), continuously monitor for the receipt of the freight transport optimisation results data flow;
(d) when the data flow in (c) is received, output its contents to the Freight Management Operator in freight transport optimisation results data flow.

Diagrams

Parent Higher Level Function

• 8.1.5 Manage Inter-modal Transport Synchronisation

Input logical dataflows

• fo.fro-freight_transport_optimiation_data
• fo.fro-request_storage_area_use
• mffo_freight_transport_optimisation_results
• mffo_storage_area_request_results

Output logical dataflows

• mffo_data_for_freight_optimisation
• mffo_storage_area_request_data
• to.fro-freight_transport_optimisation_results
• to.fro-storage_area_request_results

User needs