Vehicle speed standards in transportation planning using electronic shipping manifests

Abstract

The development of digital technologies unveils prospects for paperless document management in road transport, which is confirmed by a pilot project on the use of an electronic shipping manifest and a bill of lading. It is important to use the shipping manifest not only as a digital document, but also as a specialized software tool for calculating planned and actual performance indicators of vehicles as part of the enterprise management information system. An algorithm is proposed for constructing the information system for managing transport activities using electronic waybills, which are used as software for calculating planned performance indicators of vehicles and summarizing the results of transportation. The established standards and legal documents regulating the transfer of document flow in the field of road freight transportation to electronic basis are given. The importance of reasonable standards of average technical speed and idle time of vehicles at loading and unloading points for scheduling the performance of freight trucks on routes is illustrated. The factors influencing the value of the average technical and operational speed of a vehicle during transportation are studied and systematized, recommendations on establishing of their regulatory standards are given, formulas for calculating quantitative values are provided. Based on the specified standard of average technical speed, the calculation of the radius of cargo delivery during the day in intercity communication is demonstrated.