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In South Florida, in
addition to the two FRATIS applications, use of freight transportation for
emergency preparedness and response efficiency will also be examined,
including use of targeted real-time information for natural disasters,
including pre-event staging of supplies, post-event relief delivery
coordination, and critical road/facility closures.
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The primary partner
for the SFL test is Florida East Coast (FEC) Highway Services – the drayage
arm of FEC Railway.
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Overview of FEC
Highway Services
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Fleet of 100+ trucks
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Operations in Miami,
Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Atlanta, and others
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Approx. 63 in trucks
in Miami
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Uses Qualcomm for
fleet management
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Includes 2-way
messaging capability
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~90K moves per year,
mostly as part of a larger rail move
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Uses customer
appointments to schedule loads when a train arrives
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How was drayage
optimization tested?
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Loads transmitted
daily from FEC system to drayage optimization tool via secure FTP server
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FEC dispatch selects
the appropriate loads and drivers within the web-based interface and runs the
drayage optimization
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FEC dispatch uses
results to assign loads manually with legacy system
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Technologies used
for FRATIS South Florida:
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Drayage Optimization
(integrated load matching and freight information exchange that helps
maximize efficiency of daily drayage work plan)
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50 TomTom devices
installed on partner trucks with
WebFleet subscription
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Web-based drayage
optimization tool
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Data mapping look up
table linking partner data to
optimization tool
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Dedicated, encrypted
FTP server
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For Emergency
Preparedness and Response Efficiency the technologies used were
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Google Map-based
emergency management software and server
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Google Map-based
emergency management Android application
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Android smart
phones/devices
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