First specifications of a telegeomonitoring system for the transportation of hazardous materials

Abstract The present work gives general specifications for a monitoring system for the transportation of hazardous materials. The initial structure of the spatial decision support system integrates a range of databases on an interoperable environment. The data integration task illustrates the complex nature of the hazardous materials monitoring system. Three important components of the project, strongly linked to the spatial information system technology, are: (1) operators of graph traversal that is schematized by an object software component; (2) operators of communications proposing the basics of communication between trucks using a global positioning system (GPS) and the supervision system; and (3) the opening of services put at the disposal of the various professional users: public and private operators, etc. The advent of Internet technology democratizes communication and accesses possibilities to services given by the monitoring system. However, for professional utilization an adequate technical infrastructure is proposed. The dynamic knowledge integration in the system of supervision of hazardous materials transportation ensures that spatio-temporal data, real-time constraints, and history of events are taken into account.