Truck Bridge – Revolutionizing Transport Efficiency and Sustainability

This study introduces an application that aims to revolutionise the logistics sector by facilitating truck pooling, a transportation efficiency-enhancing method that links drivers and shippers travelling in parallel. The software helps shippers find trucks with available capacity, which lessens the number of empty trucks on the road and improves resource efficiency and environmental impact. A network of intelligent trailers that can be dynamically joined or unlinked from trucks as needed is another element of the technology. Because of its adaptability, trucks can transport more freight without making more trips, which improves operational effectiveness and boosts truckers' profits. The app has an advanced auction-based mechanism that offers shippers cost-effective choices in addition to truck pooling. The technology creates a competitive market by enabling truckers to bid on available loads at a predetermined time every day, which lowers transportation costs for consumers. The software provides instant auctions for a charge, offering flexibility and quick response times for people in need of immediate assistance. The application's “shared auction” approach, which allows users to pool smaller loads with other users travelling in the same route, is one of its standout features. Shippers with longer routes or lower cargo volumes will benefit most from this cooperative approach, which allows them to split the cost of transportation and increase efficiency. In a shared auction, users can post their loads and be paired with suitable

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2024-12-12
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https://doi.org/10.1109/icuis64676.2024.10867190
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Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
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Abstract

This study introduces an application that aims to revolutionise the logistics sector by facilitating truck pooling, a transportation efficiency-enhancing method that links drivers and shippers travelling in parallel. The software helps shippers find trucks with available capacity, which lessens the number of empty trucks on the road and improves resource efficiency and environmental impact. A network of intelligent trailers that can be dynamically joined or unlinked from trucks as needed is another element of the technology. Because of its adaptability, trucks can transport more freight without making more trips, which improves operational effectiveness and boosts truckers' profits. The app has an advanced auction-based mechanism that offers shippers cost-effective choices in addition to truck pooling. The technology creates a competitive market by enabling truckers to bid on available loads at a predetermined time every day, which lowers transportation costs for consumers. The software provides instant auctions for a charge, offering flexibility and quick response times for people in need of immediate assistance. The application's “shared auction” approach, which allows users to pool smaller loads with other users travelling in the same route, is one of its standout features. Shippers with longer routes or lower cargo volumes will benefit most from this cooperative approach, which allows them to split the cost of transportation and increase efficiency. In a shared auction, users can post their loads and be paired with suitable

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