Institute of Transportation, MOTC

Title	Feasibility Study of Adopting RFID Technology in the Area of Air Freight Management and Security-Project Phase II
Dept	Transportation Technology and Information Division
Year	2009
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Summary	This project, “Feasibility Study of Adopting RFID Technology in the Area of Air Freight Management and Security-Project Phase II”, evaluates and studies the feasibility of the adoption of the RFID and GPS technology applied to the air freight movement. The principle is to follow the international trend, by working with the structure of WCO and UN/CEFACT regarding trade facilitation and the “Single Window” concept, the latest e-freight program of IATA, the Air Security system and C-TPAT program. The program has a wide range of areas to cover in the scope, which includes international regulations and trends, processes and practices of local airfreight operations, and also a system needs to be developed to demonstrate the study outcomes. In response to the challenge, specialists from the areas of civil aviation, regulations, customs, and RFID, have been invited into this project. By following the progress of international airfreight transportation and global custom organizations on security and the efficiency of cargo movement, this program should gather and study the import and export airfreight operation procedures and associated forms in Taiwan, followed by an evaluation and feasibility study of the adoption of the RFID and GPS technology applied to the air freight movement. The initial focus of this program is the export of general air cargo by implementing the RFID facility at the points starting from the consigner ship-out point, to the air cargo terminal receiving bay point, then to the palletizing zone, and the last point is the plane side. The project gathers processes and results through this monitor system, and integrates all of the information with the virtual “Single Window”. The scope of this project is as follows: (1) Extensively collect and analyze relevant domestic and international documents, including the Regulated Agent Program of the Civil Aeronautics Administration / Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Program, the latest e-freight program of IATA, the UCR and the “Single Window” concept of WCO and UN/CEFACT. (2) Gather and study the import and export airfreight operation procedure and associated forms in Taiwan, followed by evaluation and feasibility study of the adoption of the RFID technology applied to the air freight movement planning. (3) Collect and analyze information of WCO UCR and its related projects, such as the GS1 SSCC UCR pilot projects in South Africa, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Australia. Based on the major standard of the RFID tag, do the evaluation and feasibility study of the adoption of the UCR concept on the supply chains. (4) Recommend and evaluate a framework of the virtual “Single Window” to integrate with the RFID air cargo monitor system. (5) The virtual “Single Window” should be applied to the pilot test performance and business scenario test at each controlled point. This program aims to prove the concept of the related regulation and system, adoption of the RFID technology application and integration with logistics in practice, to prove the study results to related parties in building a more friendly trading environment as a reference.
Post date	2009/09/22
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