Macro-to-Micro: Orchestrating Intelligent Access Across Borders

Some of the pressures that are driving this, are they coming from infrastructure constraints or the vehicle evolution or sustainability requirements or operator needs or other things or all of those?

Yeah, I would say in a nutshell, it would be all of those, but just trying to individuate the stakeholders involved.

So for the operators, it is basically to effectively help them to be compliant.

So This entire project that we are doing is not to punish the offenders, but to help the operators be compliant so that you can create a win-win situation and also to prepare a level playing field for all the operators.

And also, for example, in Ireland, so if you have to go from Dublin to Galway and cross five local authorities, the operator needs to apply for five different permits.

So one aspect of intelligent access tries to address this, try to centralize the permitting system.

And if we talk about the other stakeholders, for example, the road authorities in principle, they obviously need more information on on what the trucks are doing on the road, with what weight and with what cargo, so that they can manage their assets more efficiently.

So we're creating a situation where we are trying to develop this framework that could be a win-win situation for all the stakeholders involved.

And when we talk about the right vehicle with the right load on the right road at the right time, what kinds of freight movements are we especially concerned about?

Yeah.

So I mentioned that we are in this project, at least we are dealing with three target vehicles.

So abnormal individual indivisible loads.

So, for example, transformers or loads that are quite heavyweight, you can say, and they require special escorts or special permits.

Then we're dealing with longer and heavier vehicles.

So these vehicles are above what is permitted by the Weights and Dimensions Directive in Europe.

And we're also dealing with nowadays, which is the hot topic, is the battery electric vehicles, because also considering the effect that it could have on the road network and also in terms of, you know, emergency situations so in case of fire because also with the battery the weight increases so in this project we're dealing with three kind of vehicles but obviously the the methodology that we have developed is tailored to the different needs of the country so it could also include mobile cranes for example

Okay.

So what are the current pain points in the system for road authorities and operators? And where are things becoming slow or manual, fragmented or risky in the current setup?

So I think, for example, currently in the situation of Europe is such that there is very limited availability.

I think this is the first pain point for the operators, but which has an induced effect on also the road operators, not just the transport operators.

limited availability or a fragmented availability of high quality machine readable infrastructure data.

So this basically what it does, it creates uncertainty for the transport operator who basically would be accessing a road infrastructure that that would not be able to take the weight of the vehicle.

So this is just a prime example of how this kind of uncertainty could deal with a situation that could be a heavy loss for the transport operator, but also for the infrastructure managers.

Okay.