Data chain management for planning in city logistics. (30th October 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ehmke, Jan Fabian; Meisel, Stephan; Engelmann, Stefan; Mattfeld, Dirk Christian
• Is Part Of: International journal of data mining, modelling and management. Volume 1:Number 4(2009)
• Page Start: 335
• Page End: 356
• Publication Date: 2009-10-30
• Subjects: data chain management -- data mining -- city logistics -- cluster analysis -- route planning -- floating car data -- FCD -- efficient decision making -- time-dependent -- telematics -- information systems -- traffic data -- data collection -- data cleaning -- data integration; Data mining -- Periodicals; Information science -- Periodicals; Databases -- Periodicals; 005.7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1759-1163

Abstract

This contribution is about data chain management enabling route planning in city logistics. The transformation of raw data into reliable decisions requires effective data chain management. The data chain closes the gap between empirical collection of raw traffic data and decision-making in terms of route planning. We define the data chain for the support of route planning in city logistics. The data chain transforms raw empirical traffic data into planning data by first and second level aggregation. The single elements of the data chain are investigated in detail. We discuss basic issues of telematics-based data collection, data cleaning and data integration. The key element of the data chain is the aggregation by cluster analysis. Aggregated data is evaluated by explorative data analysis. Finally, the efficient application of aggregated data for route planning is illustrated.