GIS Applications in

logistics

HUSSAIN
TYIT 2019-2023
19070124025
1. Discuss the Applications of GIS in logistics and transportation sector.
GIS is a collection of location-aware applications and services. GIS has a wide range of potential uses, but
transportation has recently garnered a lot of attention as one example. GIS-T is the specialized designation for this
product. The principles of applying GIS technology to transportation issues like routing and traffic jams are referred to
as "Geographic Information System for Transportation." A successful business relies on having the right people in the
right places at the right times. The requirements of every business are unique. Personal travel and the shipping of raw
materials and finished goods are both included.

In countries like India, where urbanization is accelerating at an alarming rate. GIS is now commonplace. As far as
increasing social inclusion and reducing environmental restrictions and costs are concerned, GIS creates transportation
systems that are both of these things. This aids public transportation by providing information on infrastructure and
the design of the city. To aid in transportation facility and vehicle routing applications, GIS depicts the street network
as center lines. The information and analysis required by various applications varies. Using GIS-T, multiple geometric
representations of a single transportation network can be created. For logistics companies, GIS is a viable option.

Many companies are still reluctant to use this software. For multinational corporations, GIS facilitates the collection of
useful information about what is done in each location. In order to do this, it is necessary to combine data from
various sources of geographic content such as maps, images, applications, and other types of geographic data
commonly used in transportation and logistics planning, deployment, operation, and optimization. GIS can also be
used to ensure safety. Supply chain locations, distribution hubs, retail outlets, and customer locations are just a few
examples of the types of operations requiring GIS expertise. It allows for the selection of an economic route.

The scope of GIS applications in transportation is too broad. Highway maintenance, traffic modeling, and accident
analysis are some of the more complex applications. GIS provides information based on a location's latitude and
longitude. It provides reliable, up-to-date, relevant, and accessible information that is also cost-effective. Viewers and
users can now access and query data in GIS, but they can only raise textual queries. Despite this, GIS's ability cannot
be questioned at all.

For instance, Automated parsing of collected data and the development of converters that connect to web sources of
spatial data and download data sets that automatically convert them into a proprietary format have been implemented.
Because of this, internal tools can push map updates more quickly because the data they receive is ready to be
consumed and processed.

GIS can solve some of these problems.

• Toll costs
• General restrictions for trucks
• Country-specific truck restrictions on highways, rural roads, and within cities
• Road obstacles
• Low-emission zones
• Ferry routes

2. Discuss the route optimization process in logistics.

As a way to make sure transportation is profitable and reliable, GIS transportation planning lets you manage
the infrastructure, draw up traffic schedules, use it in systems for passengers, emergency responders, plan
traffic volumes, and market activities. When we work with spatial geographic data and show it in a way that
makes it easy to see and understand, we can make tools that help us make management decisions, improve
work in individual departments, and the whole transportation system as a whole.

As a result of using an embedded system, it is possible to accomplish the following:

• Develop a comprehensive map of all roads, infrastructure, administrative divisions and governing
bodies in the country.
• Provide information on the condition of roadways and repair work, freight terminals and their
congestion, monitoring of ancillary services, and their exact location.
• Planned orders for rolling stock from industrial facilities in neighboring regions should be met, as these
are the primary customers of transportation services.
• Ensure that the auxiliary transportation system has the ability to communicate.
• Keeping track of all passenger traffic, routes, and levels of congestion in real time. Creating new routes
and assessing current ones.
• Increase the economic efficiency of network operations by allowing analysis of traffic flows, loading
nodes, and sections.
• Real-time tracking of rolling stock distribution in territorial sections of highways, the ability to quickly
regroup, avoid congestion, accumulate empty and overload nodes.
• Improve commercial use of rolling stock, reduce unused miles, and better manage transportation loads.
• Ability to quickly allocate resources to prevent and eliminate consequences of accidents.
• Create a map of new objects and paths, and georeference various materials, such as photographs, plans,
etc.
• Reports can be generated for both territorial characteristics and standard requests on the network state.

Also, Aspectum's geographic information systems (GIS) can track essential or dangerous goods in real time
using GPS technology. Aspectum employs satellite positioning and GIS. A hardware-software complex to
control and track vehicles could be created. Together with measuring equipment, GPS receivers can detect
dangerous sections in advance, allowing for better traffic safety and repair work location control.

Aspectum software has several advantages, including:

• Unlimited job scheduling, which is vital for corporate clients.

• Geoinformation data is stored in the same database as primary corporate data and can be integrated
with standard database tools.
• Aspectum helps customers save money by lowering the total cost of ownership for the entire solution.

The solutions listed above are not exhaustive. Consultations with specialists from various departments
interested in automating management processes are required to identify solutions and develop technical
specifications for implementation of Geographic information system technologies. We are ready to provide a
complete solution, including digital cards and software tailored to your needs.