Information system for freight traceability management in a multimodal transportation context

These last years, in consequence of the various crises experienced by the world (mad-cow disease, Foot- and-mouth disease, dioxin-contaminated chicken, avian influenza), the product traceability has become the focus of interests of many researchers and decision makers. Through this paper we present the broad outlines of our research works centered more precisely on the traceability in the field of goods transportation. We propose a modeling approach of freight data, the result of this modeling, is used in the form of a centralized database for the whole of the actors implied in the freight transportation, representing the hard core of an information system for the management of traceability data. To ensure the good performance of system and in order to feed our data base with the goods transport chain data, we propose a solution according to an SOA architecture, based on an exchange of message between the various actors of the freight transport chain.