Overview

This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:

(1) The ability to take charge of optimising multi-modal freight transport in an inter-urban area.
(2) The ability to carry out the optimisation process by getting access to a database that contains current Freight Transport Operations for all transport modes that is managed outside the System.
(3) The ability to evaluate the current situation against the need(s) expressed by the Freight Management Operator.
(4) The ability to send the current road Freight Transport Operation conditions to the store of Consignment Data.

Functional Requirements

(a) wait for an optimisation request then access the external current freight transport operations database using the Multi-Modal System terminator
(b) compare the current situation to the road freight operator need
(c) formulate the results of the study and store the results under a store of Consignment Data
(d) acknowledge the freight operator about the end of the study
(e) wait for a road freight transaction storage request then inform the multi-mode facilitator about the transaction.

Diagrams

Parent Higher Level Function

• 8.1.5 Manage Inter-modal Transport Synchronisation

Input logical dataflows

• fmms.omfs-information_from_other_mode
• mffo_data_for_freight_optimisation
• mffo_read_consignment_intermodal_ops_data
• mffo_request_for_freight_optimization

Output logical dataflows

• mffo_answer_on_freight_optimization
• mffo_freight_transport_optimisation_results
• mffo_load_consignment_intermodal_ops_data
• tmms.omfs-information_request_to_other_mode

User needs