System to Enable Dynamic Hubs for Improving Supply-Chain Resource Management
First Claim
1. A system to enable dynamic hub formation for improving supply-chain resource management efficiency, comprisingan operation planning center to collect and process cargo shippers'"'"' and receivers'"'"' profiles to compute optimum dynamic hub related informationa tractor with a special design trailer,wherein the said special design trailer further comprises a left side upper panel, left side middle panel, left side lower panel, waterproof and weather proof air cushion, hinges, mechanical neighbor truck alignment apparatus, range sensors, power transmission chain, air compressor, electric motor to open the upper panel, wireless data communication unit antenna, a GPS unit, and a hydraulic piston to move the lower panel, right side upper panel, right side middle panel, right side lower panel, rear lower panel, rear middle panel, rear upper panel, rear lower panel bridge, hydraulic piston to move the rear lower panel bridge, load manager and side curtain.
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Abstract
This invention describes a dynamic hub system in which a transportation hub is dynamically formed by tractors that carry special design trailers. The location coordinates of the hub are conveyed a-priori to individual tractors that are going to participate in hub formation. Once the subject tractors arrive at the hub coordinates, they park and align themselves according to a pre-specified orientation and order. This information is transmitted to each truck from the control center via a wireless communication system such as GPRS. The novel electro-mechanic design of trailers allows trucks to form a portable hub, when get together. Dynamic hub system spares carriers from high cost of fixed hubs, and increases operational efficiency by lowering asset consolidation and redistribution times.
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1. A system to enable dynamic hub formation for improving supply-chain resource management efficiency, comprising
an operation planning center to collect and process cargo shippers'"'"' and receivers'"'"' profiles to compute optimum dynamic hub related information a tractor with a special design trailer, wherein the said special design trailer further comprises a left side upper panel, left side middle panel, left side lower panel, waterproof and weather proof air cushion, hinges, mechanical neighbor truck alignment apparatus, range sensors, power transmission chain, air compressor, electric motor to open the upper panel, wireless data communication unit antenna, a GPS unit, and a hydraulic piston to move the lower panel, right side upper panel, right side middle panel, right side lower panel, rear lower panel, rear middle panel, rear upper panel, rear lower panel bridge, hydraulic piston to move the rear lower panel bridge, load manager and side curtain.
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