Exploration on Informatization and Intelligence Construction of Air Freight Transport

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The rapid development of information technology is imperceptibly promoting profound changes in society, economy and life, greatly changing people's mode of thinking and lifestyle, and gradually playing a certain role in enterprise management, management and decision-making. At present, China's air cargo is in a period of rapid development, and air cargo has been paid more and more attention. The cargo throughput of major airports has increased dramatically year by year, and the logistics potential has gradually emerged. We need to actively embrace the development of information technology, and constantly explore new technologies and methods to solve the key problems such as insufficient air logistics development security capacity, low transport efficiency, and weak competitiveness, so as to achieve the improvement of operation quality.

1、 Air cargo status

Based on the investigation and analysis of the current air cargo informatization of Chongqing Airport, the following problems are mainly summarized:

1. The air cargo information flow is not smooth

At present, the air cargo information flow connects customs, tax, electronic ports and some airlines, but it still lacks domestic flight message information, agent waybill information, information interaction with cargo owners, information interaction with other terminals, etc.

2. Lack of accurate cargo positioning means

At present, after the goods are collected and transported or arrived at the port, the storage location of the goods in the warehouse is only general and cannot be accurately located, which makes it difficult to find goods during the distribution or shipment; The location of goods in the whole business chain can not be determined, and it is impossible to track the running track of goods; The goods cannot be verified in the process of handover, which may lead to unclear responsibilities.

3. Lack of intelligent facilities and equipment

At present, each link of the cargo handling process is still dominated by manual operation. The receiving link is handled and stacked by manual+forklift. The transfer in the warehouse also depends on manual+forklift. The apron transportation still depends on manual driving vehicles, resulting in low efficiency in the entire business processing process, more personnel and high labor costs. The goods are mainly stored on the ground, which can not effectively play the role of three-dimensional space of the warehouse.

4. Lack of resource control means in freight area

The air cargo business needs a lot of resources, such as loading and unloading personnel, truck drivers, box resources, flatbed trucks, forklifts, etc. At present, it is impossible to locate relevant resources, and it also lacks reliable and efficient resource management and scheduling strategies and tools. Only relying on the work experience of managers to control can not give full play to the maximum effectiveness of resources. With the increasing size of the airport, the existing resource management and control mode is difficult to cope.

5. Lack of regulatory means for operation specification

At present, the manual management mode can only meet the supervision of the overall task of freight transport, and lacks the specific information of each node of the air freight business chain, so it is unable to carry out refined supervision of key nodes, such as the standardization of operation, timeliness of processing and rationality of resource allocation.

6. Paper is widely used

The air cargo business needs a lot of resources, and the current cargo processing process is still dominated by manual operations in all aspects, so a large number of paper materials and vouchers will be generated. With the increasing size of the airport, the use of paper will bring about the bottleneck of air cargo efficiency.

2、 Logistics information management platform

In response to the call of the 13th Five Year Plan, Chongqing Airport Logistics Information Management Platform was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission for construction. The platform is committed to the intelligent transformation and "Internet+" management of airport aviation logistics business, so as to realize the electronization and informatization of airport aviation logistics business. The platform includes five major parts: freight information system, freight security inspection information system, express inspection system, logistics park management system and data integration platform.

The freight information system is mainly used for the air freight production related posts of the airport ground service company. The system functions include outbound document review, inbound and outbound flight operation, container control, message processing, flight management, transit business functions, real-time statistics, billing processing, loading declaration, cargo and mail tracking and other business functions. It realizes the whole process electronization of air freight production process and information operation through vertical resource collection, access The integration of resources, application calls and the integration of complete business processes, as well as the horizontal integration of system modules across departments and networks, can meet the needs of airport air cargo production business and improve the efficiency of air logistics production.

The freight security inspection information system provides a comprehensive, safe, accurate, convenient and reliable solution for the security inspection of the freight yard. The system realizes the informatization and visualization of the whole process of cargo passing inspection information and ensures the security of airport air cargo business by binding the entry of the identity information of the cargo owner and freight forwarder and the cargo waybill number with the pictures and video information when the cargo passes through the X-ray machine, the operation records and unpacking information of the security inspectors on the cargo.

The express inspection system is used in the airport express inspection center. The system design consists of express electromechanical equipment and inspection system. The system can complete the functions of scanning and passing inspection of express parcels, pre distribution and off-line, unpacking and off-line, meet the requirements of customs supervision, and greatly improve the speed of express parcel passing inspection process.

The main function of the logistics park management system is to show the air logistics style of the airport. As the portal of the airport air logistics, it can realize the paperless office functions of the logistics park, including freight forwarders, cargo owners, the park management committee and other relevant units. It can also realize the resource division and application in the park, online contract management process, online statistics of air cargo volume, property management, agent pre entry and other functions, It greatly facilitates the work of park leaders and freight forwarders, and provides strong support for airport aviation logistics production informatization.

The data integration platform includes the unified exchange and integration management with the passenger cabin, freight system, freight forwarding system and other airport operation management systems of Chongqing E-port, customs and airlines. At the same time, the data integration platform is used for the unified data model design, data quality governance, standard management and control, and business intelligence data application of logistics data, providing platform support for the large summary of aviation logistics data of the airport.

Through the construction of the logistics information platform project, the informatization and electronic management of the air cargo business have been realized, the information related to the air logistics business has been unified, and the isolated islands of information have been eliminated, providing an efficient and reliable information platform for the construction of smart airports and smart logistics, and also laying a solid foundation for improving the quality of airport air logistics services.

3、 Significance of logistics information management platform

The logistics information management platform takes the lead in using big data and the Internet of Things technology to organically integrate multiple airport freight related platforms nationwide, so as to achieve data exchange, providing Chongqing Airport and freight forwarding enterprises with a large number of data tools and data applications with rich functions. It is of great help for airports and freight forwarding enterprises to grasp cargo and mail information in a timely manner and grasp the market changes and development trends of air cargo. At the same time, the logistics information management platform has established a set of freight system security system, integrating the original decentralized freight related systems into the freight information management system, establishing a system security system within the unified system, effectively ensuring the system network security, and improving the efficiency of system security operation and maintenance. In addition, the process optimization mechanism is introduced. Due to the adoption of the freight system, all freight related business operations are completed on the freight system. Due to the rolling updating characteristics of the information system, continuous optimization of the existing process can be achieved through continuous research combined with the actual production situation, which changes the previous "dead process" and "difficult process optimization" problems, and greatly improves the efficiency of enterprise production management.

The logistics information management platform takes the lead in realizing the transparency and traceability of all links of the airport logistics chain nationwide. The system can provide the relevant enterprises in the logistics park with the whole process transparent goods tracking and query service, so that the relevant enterprises can timely grasp the number of goods, weight and other goods information, intuitively obtain the specific links of inbound and outbound goods in the waybill, greatly improving the service level and service quality.

4、 Overview, level and development exploration of relevant technologies at home and abroad

1. Cargo tracking

RFID technology is an important means to achieve cargo tracking. It identifies specific targets and reads and writes relevant data through wireless signals. Compared with traditional optical identification equipment (ATR), RFID RFID is not affected by barcode location, background light, printing quality, barcode contamination and other conditions. At present, RFID technology in the aviation industry is mainly used for baggage tracking and equipment management. We can use RFID technology to record baggage identity information, effectively improve the collection rate of baggage transportation information and the accuracy of baggage tracking by airports and airlines, achieve real-time baggage sharing and accurate positioning, and make passenger baggage "traceable".

2. Storage and handling of goods

Storage and handling of cargo in air cargo mainly rely on AGV, mechanical arm, four-way shuttle and other intelligent equipment.

AGV can realize the transfer of goods in the warehouse, replacing the mode of manual+forklift to create an unmanned warehouse. The handling manipulator can be used for picking, picking and short distance handling of goods. It can work 24 hours without interruption, replacing manual operation and saving labor costs. The four-way shuttle is used for the storage and retrieval of goods in the three-dimensional warehouse, and it is the key equipment to build an unmanned three-dimensional warehouse in coordination with the elevator. We use these technologies to realize automatic warehousing, intensive storage and automatic outbound of goods, and to automate the processing of goods.

3. Unmanned driving

Unmanned driving technology can realize the transportation of goods between the apron and the cargo warehouse. Through multi-dimensional security measures, under the premise of ensuring safety, reduce the number of drivers, reduce labor intensity, and improve the refined control ability of cargo transportation. Unmanned driving can eliminate the fatigue, distraction and other risks that are easy to occur in manual driving, and can operate around the clock to maximize equipment efficiency.

4. Internet of Things technology and application

The Internet of Things technology is the key technology to realize the positioning and management of unpowered equipment. The Internet of Things connects people and things, and things and things through communication technology. Therefore, the Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN for short) came into being. This project mainly studies the applicability of various technologies in the air cargo scenario, selects appropriate technologies and optimizes them, and then combines them with satellite navigation or 5G terminals for people, vehicles Management and scheduling of non powered pallet trucks and ULD equipment.

5. Freight resource management and scheduling

We can record the track position and use status of the unpowered equipment by building the Internet of Things infrastructure in the freight area, installing low-power, high-precision Internet of Things sensors on the unpowered truck, and integrating the Beidou navigation and positioning technology, so as to achieve efficient management of the unpowered truck in the freight area. Through satellite navigation or 5G terminal, track the track position of vehicles and personnel in real time to achieve efficient management of vehicles and personnel. Through big data technology and artificial intelligence algorithm, achieve collaborative scheduling of vehicles, unpowered equipment, personnel, etc. in the freight area, provide the optimal solution for intelligent management and scheduling of freight station resources, and automatically adjust the strategy according to real-time data, which can greatly improve the utilization of freight area resources.

5、 Conclusion

The information and intelligent work of air cargo is an important support and guarantee for deepening civil aviation reform and accelerating airport development, and also an important means to boost the construction of "smart airport". With the acceleration of the large-scale complex hub of Chongqing Airport, Chongqing Airport Freight Information Platform has strongly promoted the informatization construction of the aviation logistics platform, creating a new pattern of "smart logistics" of Chongqing Airport. In the future, in combination with the new development of modern information technology, further upgrade and improve the aviation logistics information platform, realize the effective integration and utilization of resource information, which will greatly help to effectively improve the management and operation efficiency of airport aviation logistics, and grasp the market changes and development trends of air cargo.

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