Randy Butler from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation gave a presentation on new DOT programs in improving freight transportation. The Electronic Freight Management (EFM) initiative is a USDOT-sponsored project that applies Web technologies that improve data and message transmissions between supply chain partners. It promotes and evaluates innovative e-business concepts, enabling process coordination and information sharing for supply chain freight partners through public-private collaboration. The CEFM (Columbus EFM) project was a successful 2007 deployment test which implemented web services and other components to support an existing international import truck-air-truck supply chain. The goal is to provide a mechanism for sharing supply chain freight information that is simpler, cheaper, and more efficient to implement than traditional EDI, allows for all, but especially small to medium sized and less sophisticated, supply chain partners to access the information, and makes it easier to customize the flow of information between and among partners. Another goal of the initiative is to design a system to ensure that data are entered once but used many times, thereby eliminating data transcription errors. EFM aims to help companies replace paper trails with electronic information, freeing up human resources that were previously devoted to manual data entry. For more details on the program visit the EFM web page at http://www.efm.us.com/.
The Cross Town Improvement Program was also discussed. More information can be obtained from the web page at http://www.ctip-us.com/.
Contact: Randy ButlerTransportation SpecialistOffice of Freight Management and OperationsU.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Phone +1 202.366.9215 mailto:randy.butler@dot.gov
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