Information Exchange

Sharing accurate and timely supply and demand information throughout a supply chain can yield significant performance improvements to all members of the supply chain.

This book will describe the functions of communication and information transfer between organisms and explain how animals communicate and find each other through use of different signals.

Technologies for traffic and travel information (TTI) have been evolving rapidly in recent years. This book offers an overview of three generations of TTI technology, beginning with the first generation of human to human information transmission. The second generation incorporated machine to human information exchange, with the development of classification and transmission protocols such as RDS-TMC and TPEG. A third generation of machine to machine communication is now emerging, disrupting TTI technology and creating the need for this new reference work, which covers gathering information from automated sensors, its digital processing and transmission, and its use by increasingly intelligent agents and vehicles.