Initial evaluation of an ontology for transport brokering

Currently there is a lot of interest in developing applications to support the mobility and movement of resources and related features. One notable example is freight transportation management. Ontology-driven multi-agent systems are promising technologies for building systems that provide an intelligent service for freight transportation brokering aiming to create optimal transport policies such that transport costs are reduced to the minimum. We propose a freight transportation ontology and then we define a scenario of transport logistics to validate our proposed ontology. The evaluation is based on the careful examination of ontology concepts and properties that are required for capturing freight transportation requests and resources.