The
progress of logistics industry in Malaysia has failed to keep pace with its
growth in trading process (Hazzuddin, 2009). The logistics industry continues
to provide services with the growing importance of high valued goods
transported over land. The safety of the good is very important to the industry
as the value of the transported goods may value up to millions or billions of
Ringgit. Apart from planning and scheduling the trips, the real time vehicle
tracking allows the operations personnel to exercise the time of delivery and
pick up of goods in the best manner and analyse driver’s performance.
The
vehicle tracking is one of the ways to solve the transported issue including
the security of the goods and also the driver’s behaviour. It is the method
that is able to monitor the location, movement, status and behaviour of fleet
of vehicles. It combines the Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and an
electronic device fitted in the vehicle and communicating it with web-based
software.
The satellite
will detect the location and other data from the tracking device that has been
fitted in the vehicle. The local mobile service provider will receive the data
and store it in the tracking server. From the server, the company will be able
to do the analysis of the trip by using all the data gathered. The server will
also allow the clients or the receiver of the delivering goods to track the
location of their goods during the delivering process.
Tracking
management solutions will make the system transformed into high value
businesses that meet customers’ growth. The main impact of the system is to
overcome any issue that happened in the road haulage industry.
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