Value of ICT Integration Model of e-Booking System and Intelligent Truck Traffic Management System in the Sea Port of TEN-T Corridor

Abstract

Systematic growth of cargo flow in the TEN-T corridor passing through the all Sea Ports served both by the existing terminals and those planned in the Port’s development strategy. The forecast growth rate of turnover in the Port results from the strategy adopted by the Port Authority to increase competitiveness and attractiveness of the Port as a business partner, in response to the implementation of the strategy of economic development of Europe, the strategy of development of the New Silk Belt and Route China-Europe and the dynamic development of European import/export. Currently, traffic in the European Sea Ports (e.g. Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, Dover, Felixstowe, Aalborg, Le Havre, Lisbon) periodically reaches the saturation level in the existing road network. This causes, periodically and in the perspective of the development of goods turnover, the reasons for this:

• lorry queues before entering terminals and on access roads, creating traffic jams and blocking roads in the Port and City and the main access routes,

• extension of unloading/loading time of ships,

• reducing the efficiency and effectiveness of terminals’ work,

• inefficient use of parking lots in the port, as well as in the period of traffic jams when there are no parking spaces for lorries in the port’s parking lots and its surroundings,

• reduction of traffic safety and greater susceptibility to collisions with high or critical saturation of traffic in the road network and reduction of transport comfort for the society of the port agglomeration.

The problems identified have a significant impact on the efficiency and duration (and delays) of cross-border road freight transport (road hauliers from all over Europe), in global maritime supply chains served by global shipping lines, as well as in international rail freight transport.