WO2018122772A1

WO2018122772A1 - Method and system for coordination and optimization of services offered by company for goods transport on road

Info

Publication number: WO2018122772A1
Application number: PCT/IB2017/058472
Authority: WO
Inventors: Antonio Marchetti
Original assignee: Easytrucking Srl
Priority date: 2016-12-28
Filing date: 2017-12-28
Publication date: 2018-07-05
Also published as: IT201600131774A1; EP3563319A1

Abstract

The method and the system for coordinating and optimizing the services offered by good road transport companies ADT1, ADT2... ADTn provide for the entry, via a web platform, of data relating to the routes planned for transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2... MDTn belonging to the same transport companies ADT1, ADT2... ADTn in a database at an operations center 50, and the collection of data relating to the geolocation of transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2... MDTn via GPS 1, GPS 2... GPSn devices mounted on transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2... MDTn and connected with collection centers CDR1, CDR2... CDRn via mobile communication devices. The data collected sent to the operations center 50 and aggregated are recorded on a main database. The platform is also enabled to receive the transport service requests from users UT1, UT2... UTn, whose requests are compared with the data relative to the programmed routes and geolocation of transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2... MDTn in order to coordinate the collection of goods for the execution of the received transport service requests by the transport vehicle or vehicles MDT1, MDT2... MDTn which show the planned route and/or the geographical position most suitable for carrying out the collection.

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF SERVICES OFFERED BY COMPANY FOR GOODS TRANSPORT ON ROAD

Description

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the road transport sector and more particularly relates with system and a method for collecting, aggregating and distributing information on the positioning of vehicles used for transporting goods, in order to rationalize and make economically more advantageous the use thereof.

State of the art

As known, most of the goods, especially in small and medium-haul transport, travel on transport mobile on road, since this is the most economic and practical way to transport goods in this area.

In order to maintain the maximum economic efficiency in transporting on vehicles, and to take full advantage of the freedom of movement that this mode of transport allows, it is certainly useful, if not necessary, to optimize the shipping capacity and timeliness of access to the service, possibly on a regular basis.

This object is pursued by ensuring that vehicles transport a load to and from their destination, reducing, as far as possible, the number of times a vehicle travels empty. Instead, the timeliness in accessing to the service is improved by providing the possibility of collecting a load according to the geographical position of the available vehicles, instead of, or in addition to, sending the vehicles from time to time in the areas which the requests come from.

All above provides the need to continuously and efficiently collect information on the geolocation of the vehicles of the various road transport companies, aggregate the collected information and make them available to the same in order to converge the service demand with the related offer with maximum timeliness and convenience.

The modern GSM/GPRS communication network allows trucking companies to communicate with the drivers of their vehicles, but this allows to know the position of each vehicle in an uncoordinated, approximate, non-continuous manner and limited to the own fleet.

Therefore, very limited information may be obtained that in some cases helps to recover a service request received at the last moment, but does not allow any dynamic management of transport service requests, which will continue to be substantially answered according to what was established before the service starts, limited to the list received for each vehicle.

Scope of the invention The object of the present invention is to provide a method adapted to organize and optimize on a regular basis the services offered by road transport companies, in order to coordinate the collection of goods for the execution of received transport service requests by the transport vehicle or vehicles having the planned route and/or the most suitable geographical position to carry out the collection.

More in detail, the object of the invention is to use most of the load capacity of the vehicles in circulation, minimizing CO2 emissions, empty routes and time for commercial research both for the transporter and for the user requesting the shipping service.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a system that is adated to carry out the above method, optimizing and making the organization of goods collection for which a transport service is required easy to use for the user and cost-effective for the associated transport companies.

Another object of the invention is to provide a method and a system which are aloso adapted to provide a monitoring of certain conditions of the transport vehicles, such as load weight, engine condition, fuel consumption and others, so as to create statistical tables and suggest from time to time the most suitable solution for transport service requests, as well as to check the conditions of the vehicles and indicate any changes to the service program.

A further object of the invention is to provide a method and a system easy and intuitive to use by operators and customers, simple in its operativity and effective in obtaining the advantages resulting from the achievement of the above objects as weel as from others that will be become motre apparent from the following description. In particular, it is intended to make available to transport companies and users a means that allows the purchase of the shipping service directly on-line, like the purchase of any train or air ticket.

The above objects are achieved by a method which, according to claim 1, initially provides the input, via a suitable web platform, of data relating to the programmed routes for transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn belonging to the same transport companies ADT1 , ADT2 ... ADTn in a database at an operating center 50; the collection of data relating to the geolocation of transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn belonging to the same transport companies ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn; the aggregation of data collected at said operations center 50; the receipt of requests for transport services coming from users UT1, UT2 ... UTn enabled for electronic access to said operations center 50, via the same web platform; the elaboration, by the web platform, of the requests and the comparison thereof with the data relative to the planned routes and to geolocation of transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn for coordinating the collection of goods for the execution of transport service requests received through the transport vehicle or vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn showing the planned route and/or the most suitable geographical position.

The method may be carried out through a system that comprises an operations center 50 on which a web platform is implemented for receiving and managing data and a database designed for recording the data received from the web platform, the data comprising data relating to programmed routes for said transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn and geolocation data of the transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn; means for the acquisition of geolocation data of the transport means MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn and for the transmission of data corresponding to the geographical position to the operations center 50, associated with each transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn; the web platform implemented in the operations center 50 is suitable to organize and aggregate in a database the data relating to the routes programmed for said transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn and the data received from said transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn, said platform web being suitable to receive requests for transport services coming from users UT1, UT2 ... UTn enabled for remote access to said operations center 50, and to process said requests by comparing them with the data relating to the programmed routes and to the geolocation of transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn, in order to coordinate the collection of goods for the execution of transport service requests received by transport vehicle or vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn which present the planned route and/or the most suitable geographical position to make the collection.

Brief disclosure of the drawings

The features of the invention which do not emerge from above will become more apparent in the light of following description, to be considered with reference to the attached drawing table, wherein:

Figure 1 schematically shows the practical implementation of the method and the geographic arrangement of the system carrying ou the method;

Figure 2 represents a flow chart which schematically shows the operation of the method and of the system associated therewith;

Figures 3a and 3b instead represent, in reciprocal integration, the global operational workflow of the method and of the associated system, with a simplified representation.

Best modes of carrying out the invention

The main function of the method and of the system of the present invention is the aggregation of the transport companies present in a given area in order to offer the possibility of sharing the position and availability of the transport means belonging to the relative fleets, making this data available to the users interested in sending goods of all kinds, allowing them to obtain the requested service in a short time, while in this way transport companies can optimize the performance of the service with obvious savings, especially in economic terms. In practice, this means creating a virtual place wherein road transport companies make their vehicles available in aggregate manner (with an extended offer) for all those users who need to send goods (satisfying the demand in the best way).

The demand is made up of both professional users and individuals, while the offer consists exclusively of accredited and carefully selected operators in the sector.

This virtual place is realized in a web platform that does not represent a simple showcase with lists of loads and vehicles, schedules and prices, but which realizes a real dynamic tool that through appropriate synchronizations with on-board GPS devices in the transport vehicles, allows users to request and purchase in real time a transport service from transport companies that have, at the time of request, vehicles available for loading near the place of collection. In reply to the insertion of the request, the transport companies remain free to sell the relative available load capacity, always in real time.

This coordination of offer and demand actions makes it possible to exploit the load capacity of the vehicles in circulation, minimizing CO2 emissions, unladen routes and commercial search times for both the transporter and the shipping user.

The purchase of the shipment ends directly online, like the purchase of any train or air ticket. With reference to Figure 1, the method for coordinating and optimizing the services offered by road transport companies ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn, object of the present invention, first of all provides for the input of data relative to the routes planned for transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn belonging to the same transport companies ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn in a main database, provided at an operating center 50.

Data entry operations are carried out through a suitable web platform made operational in the operations center 50 and operating on the database, which can be reached via a geographical network, for example the Internet, or by other suitable means, for example direct access to the same operations center, possibly by an operator.

Companies that want to take part in the project will have to register by signing a suitable contract which is not further described, since it does not relate to the present invention, according to which they will be obliged to provide data relating to their vehicles as well as their positions and will allow the processing of such information for the purposes of the project.

However, it is understood that the registration faculty will not be denied to companies that, for various reasons, will not or cannot provide the position of their vehicles, but these must necessarily comprise the covered routes if they want to receive requests for services, as will be evident from the following description.

With the registration, the transport companies ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn will also provide the data necessary to make an online payment system operative, which payments of the sums received by the customers and due to the same transport companies on each transaction concluded will be made on, after deducing a percentage of commission.

With the activation of the system, there will be the collection of data relative to geolocation of the transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn belonging to the registered transport companies ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn and the aggregation of the collected data by the platform in the operations center 50.

The collection of data relating to the geolocation of the transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn is carried out by means of GPS 1, GPS2 ... GPSn devices, which are mounted on the same transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn and which are connected to collection centers CDR1 , CDR2 ... CDRn via respective mobile communication devices connected to a GSM/GPRS cellular network.

The collection centers CDR1, CDR2 ... CDRn are organized and made available by the provider companies APR1, APR2 ... APRn providing the GSP geolocation services, which likewise provide the GPS 1, GPS2 ... GPSN devices which the transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn are equipped with.

In conjunction with the collection centers, suitable independent secondary databases are provided for the registration and continuous updating of the geographical positions of the transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn. The related GPS 1, GPS 2 ... GPSN devices are connected to the respective provider companies APR1, APR2 ... APRn of the geolocation services.

Therefore, the position of the transiting vehicles is managed by specialized companies that deal with the supply of GPS devices to the transporters, with the installation thereof on the vehicles, but mainly with the management of the infrastructure (including the software they own) for the reprocessing of received data.

The collected data are then transmitted to the operations center 50 via a geographical network or other known means of data communication.

During registration, transport companies may directly select the service provider accredited with the site and the operator of the GPS signals issued by their vehicles. In this circumstance, the company may also offer the "Verified Position" service of the vehicle through the platform.

The transport service requests come from users UT1, UT2 ... UTn enabled for electronic access to the operations center 50, which users interact with the web platform through an appropriate user interface.

As matter of fact, users wishing to reserve a transport service using the system of this invention must first register providing the relevant details necessary for their identification and consent to the processing of such information for the performance of the requested service.

As far as the payment of the service is concerned, it is preferable to provide, according to well known and commonly used techniques, an online payment system through the web platform, all in remote way via the Internet; for example, payment may be made through the "Paypal" system, through the account opened in said system by the users of the service.

Once the reservations for the transport services have been received, the web platform processes and compares the requests with the data relative to the planned routes and geolocation of the transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn.

The aim is to coordinate the collection of goods for the execution of received transport service requests with the availability of the transport vehicle or vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn which have the planned route and/or the most suitable geographical position to make the collection.

Evidently, companies that have not provided the data relating to the planned routes will also begin to receive the requests, even if the companies with a verified position and routes previously communicated to the platform will get an advantage from the point of view of the number of requests received, precisely because they will also receive all those where the itinerary corresponding to the point of departure and destination of the goods were to correspond with that followed by the vehicle.

In addition to the geolocation information, for each transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn, data on load weight, engine status, fuel consumption, driver service hours, etc. may be collected and registered at the operations center 50.

With this data, statistical information can be prepared on transport, routes, vehicles and operators, so as to be able to carry out an assignment as far as possible optimized for each transport service request.

Moreover, thanks to the statistical information, it is also advantageously possible to foresee in a future implementation the planning of maintenance or revision of the vehicles, according to their status of service.

As above, it is clear that the system used to implement the coordination and optimization method comprises the operations center 50 and in particular the web platform for receiving and managing data, which the main database set up for registration of the received data is associated to.

The system also comprises means for the acquisition of said geolocation data of the transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn, i.e. the GPS 1, GPS 2 ... GPSN devices, made available by the provider companies APR1, APR2 ... APRn of GPS geolocation services, as well as the means for transmitting data corresponding to the geographical position to the operation center 50, consisting of mobile communication devices connected to a GSM/GPRS cellular network 10 and associated with each transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn.

The system also comprises are collection centers CDR1, CDR2 ... CDRn supplied by the provider companies APR1, APR2 ... APRn of GPS geolocation services as well as the independent secondary databases designed for the registration and continuous updating of the geographical locations of the transport vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn.

Each provider company supplying the GPS devices to the transporters own one or more DB from which the platform picks up the updating of the positions of the vehicles (in Lat. DDD MM 'SS.S' + N/S/E/W and Long. DDD ⁰ MM 'SS.S "+ N/S/E/W format) at intervals, for example, about 20 minutes. For each GPS provider company, the platform has a specific portion of code that interfaces with an additional database of a provider company to which all the transport companies customers thereof refer and which contains the positions of all the vehicles owning thereto.

These data are stored and updated with the frequency described above in the database of the operating center platform 50.

As already mentioned above, the platform is designed to manage payments through an online payment system, such as Paypal.

Both the user and the transport company have to complete the registration on the platform made available on the site. In order to be enabled to receive requests, the transport company, in addition to the basic information compiled by all users, must fill in the price table while the commission will be treated as a percentage at the time of the transaction and of the payment of the freight transfer to the carrier automatically executed via an online payment service, such as "Paypal".

To offer the verified position of its own vehicles and, therefore, to receive requests also based on their immediate location, the transport company will have to select its geolocation service provider during registration and enter the relevant credentials.

In the case of requests for goods already ready for collection, the platform selects from the main position database the list of vehicles whose last position is comprised in the area of a predetermined number of kilometers from the pick-up point entered by user UT1, UT2 ... UTn during the request, and then verifies if for such vehicles the transport company has inserted programmed routes compatible with those of the request.

In case of positive feedback, the list is reordered by privileging the offers corresponding to vehicles MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn for which the criterion of proximity to the place of collection and that of compatibility of the planned route is valid, otherwise there is displayed the list already determined in the previous point.

In the case of shipments for which goods will be ready at a later date, for example at a future date, the transport request will be displayed by all carriers registered to the site, while for the user the list of all possible offers will be displayed, obviously not connected to vehicle currently present on the territory.

In both cases, the transport company ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn, will have to confirm its availability to perform the transport and then the relative offer will be displayed instantly as "purchasable" from the user interface.

The user may proceed with the purchase of only one transport offer among those available for purchase, for which the transport company ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn has confirmed the availability thereof.

During the purchase of the transport, the user UT1, UT2 ... UTn enters the details of his credit card or accesses his Paypal account, confirms the payment and, only after the transaction has been completed, at the time of payment for the freight shipment, which is paid on the transporter's Paypal account, at the same time, the amount of commission due to the management system is automatically deducted from this amount.

At the same time, the system issues and sends an order confirmation to the transport company

ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn, to the shipping user UT1, UT2 ... UTn and to the recipient.

The transport company ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn, finally, proceeds with the collection of goods, makes the shipment, delivers the goods and collects the signed DDT (Transport Document) as valid proof of delivery to the recipient.

As long as the pdf document of the signed DDT is not uploaded to the platform, the confirmation of delivery is not issued to the user UT1, UT2 ... UTn who has shipped the goods.

Figures 3 a and 3b show the operating procedure, in a simplified manner, of the system and its various steps from the presentation of the transport request to the completion of the service and to collection. The description of each step is self-explanatory and a more detailed discussion is not considered necessary. According to this scheme, the service implemented by the system in accordance with the invention is referred in exemplificative way as "Easytrucking".

For the acquisition of data relative to load weight, engine status, fuel consumption, driver service times, etc., in addition to the GPS 1, GPS2 ... GPSN device for determining the geolocation information, for each transport vehicle MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn means are provided for collecting such data, said means consisting of sensors and detectors which will not be discussed in greater detail as being known and not pertinent with the essential aspects of the present invention.

The system may also provide the possibility, for both users and transporters, to delete the shipment with automatic charge of a variable amount depending on the moment in which the request for cancellation occurs, and there is also provided for the active release of the payment (as shown in the simplified workflow of Figures 3 a and 3b) which protects the customer ("the Shipper") from the risk of failure or partial execution of the transport by the service provider ("Transporter").

The advantages here intended to obtain from the method and the system are evident.

With the system object of the present invention a technological connection is created between three main actors: the user/company that needs to send goods, the transporter who wants to fill its own vehicles with lots of additional goods and, therefore, increase their profitability, and finally the companies that supply the GPS devices to the transporters that grant the platform access to the secondary databases containing the positions of the vehicles.

In practice, the transport company provides the platform with all the necessary documentation for the initial selection and guarantees, through the secondary database of the provider, the traceability of the vehicles in real time. To this end, it registers to the platform and synchronizes its vehicles with it, receives requests from users and provides its availability to carry out the transport after eventually including the routes covered by the vehicles in the appropriate section of the site. This last operation is however optional, even if it is advantageous for the user.

In turn, the shipping user access to the site and make the registration by filling in the appropriate form, and then enter a transport request, which will be notified automatically and instantly to those transporters having vehicles near the inserted place of collection and/or available on routes inserted and compatible with that of the request. At the same time, the algorithm of the system provides to order and display the offer to the customer in an optimized manner. This favors the purchase of transport solutions corresponding to vehicles that are close to the place of collection or traveling on routes compatible with that of the request.

To do so, it visualizes the transport offers connected to the vehicles available for loading obtained from the list produced by the platform and waits for the availability to carry out the transport of at least one of the transport companies to which the request was addressed.

Once the user has selected one of the offers for which he has received the availability from the platform, he proceeds with the purchase through the online procedure by paying with a credit card or Paypal account, or with other known methods that should be provided for by the system.

Once the recipient contacts have been transmitted to the company, the user, or another subject if the sender is different from the user who requested the service, receive the order confirmation and make the goods available at the place of collection.

All this is made possible because the platform interrogates databases containing the positions of the vehicles of the various GPS service providers and provides visibility of the vehicles present on the territory to the users, who carefully select only the preferred transport companies.

Therefore, the platform aggregates the services offered by the various transporters in a single virtual place, with an infrastructure for issuing order confirmations and for managing payments from a user to a transport company, withholding its management fee.

GPS service provider companies also benefit greatly from the system object of the present invention, as they provide an additional service to their package, so as to extend, diversify and complete the offer to customers, and also take care of the management of the position and of the characteristic data of the vehicles on which the GPS receivers are mounted, based on their customer portfolio made up of several transport companies. In conclusion, with the present invention a dynamic tool is created which, by means of appropriate synchronizations with the GPS devices present on board the vehicles, enables users to request and purchase a transport from the transport companies that have, at the time of the request, means available to the load near the collection point entered at the time of the request and to the transporters to sell the available load capacity.

A method is provided that can organize and optimize on a regular basis the services offered by road transport companies, to coordinate the collection of goods for the execution of transport service requests received with the transport vehicle or vehicles presenting the planned route and/or the most suitable geographic position to carry out the collection.

The result is to use the most of the load capacity of the vehicles in circulation, minimizing CO2 emissions, empty routes and time of commercial research both for the transporters and for the user who requests the shipping service.

A method and a system are provided which are of easy and intuitive use by operators and customers, simple in their functionality and effective in obtaining the advantages resulting from achieving the aforementioned purposes.

Claims

1. Method for the coordination and optimization of services offered by goods road transport companies (ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn), characterized by comprising:

entry, via a suitable web platform, of data relating to the routes planned for transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) owning to the same transport companies (ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn) in a database at an operating center (50 );

collection of data relating to the geolocation of said transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) owning to transport companies (ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn);

aggregation of collected data at said operations center (50);

receipt of requests for transport services coming from users (UT1, UT2 ... UTn) enabled for electronic access to said operations center (50), via said web platform;

processing, by said web platform, of said requests and comparison thereof with the data relative to the planned routes and geolocation of transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) in order to coordinate the collection of goods for the execution of received transport service requests by the transport vehicle or vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) which show the planned route and/or the geographical position most suitable for carrying out the collection.

2. Method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the collection of data relative to the geolocation of transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) is carried out by GPS devices (GPS 1, GPS 2 ... GPSn) mounted on the transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) themselves and connected with collection centers (CDR1, CDR2 ... CDRn) through respective cellular communication devices connected to a GSM/GPRS cellular network, with said collection centers (CDR1, CDR2 ... CDRn) provided for forwarding the collected data to said operations center (50).

3. Method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the collection of data relative to the geolocation of transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) is carried out through the provider companies (APR1, APR2 ... APRn) of GSP geo-localization services, which provide said GPS devices (GPS 1, GPS 2 ... GPSN) and organize said collection centers (CDR1, CDR2 ... CDRn) where appropriate autonomous databases are provided for the registration and continuous updating of the geographical position of the transport vehicles (MDT1 , MDT2 ... MDTn) respectively connected to the corresponding provider (APR1, APR2 ... APRn) of the geolocation services (GPS 1. GPS2 ... GPSN).

4. Method as claimed in the preceding claims, wherein an online payment system through said web platform is provided for the users (UT1, UT2 ... UTn).

5. Method as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein in addition to the geolocation information for each transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) data relating to load weight, engine state, fuel consumption are collected and recorded in said operations center (50).

6. Method as claimed in the preceding claims, wherein statistical information is provided on transports, routes, vehicles and operators, so as to be able to carry out an assignment as far as possible optimized for each transport service request.

7. System for the coordination and optimization of services offered by road transport companies (ADT1, ADT2 ... ADTn), characterized by comprising:

an operations center (50) on which a web platform for receiving and managing data is implemented and a database suitable for recording the data received from said web platform, said data comprising data relating to the routes programmed for said transport vehicles (MDT1 , MDT2 ... MDTn) and geolocation data of said transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn);

means for the acquisition of said geolocation data of the transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) and for the transmission of data corresponding to said geographic position to said operations center (50), associated to each transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn);

wherein said web platform implemented in said operations center (50) is adapted to organize and aggregate in a database the data relative to the routes programmed for said transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) and the data received from said transport vehicles (MDT1 , MDT2 ... MDTn),

wherein said web platform is set up to receive requests for transport services from users (UT1, UT2 ... UTn) enabled for electronic access to said operations center (50), and to the processing of said requests by comparison the same with the data relating to the planned routes and geolocation of transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn), in order to coordinate the collection of goods for the execution of received transport service requests with the transport vehicle or vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) showing the planned route and/or the most suitable geographical position to carry out the collection.

8. System as claimed in claim 7, wherein on each transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) a GPS device (GPS 1, GPS 2 ... GPSN) is provided for determining the relative geolocation data together with means of communication of the determined data to said operations center (50) through a cellular communication device connected to a GSM / GPRS cellular network

9. System as claimed in claim 8, wherein the collection of data relative to the geolocation of transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) is carried out by collection centers (CDR1, CDR2 ... CDRn) prepared by provider companies (APR1, APR2 ... APRn) of GPS geolocation services, which provide said GPS devices (GPS 1, GPS2 ... GPSn) and organize said collection centers (CDR1, CDR2 ... CDRn) where appropriate autonomous databases are provided for recording and continuous updating the geographical position of the transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn) respectively connected to the relative provider companies (APR1, APR2 ... APRn) of GPS geo-location services.

10. System as claimed in claims 7 to 9, wherein said web platform comprises an online payment system for users (UT1, UT2 ... UTn).

11. System as claimed in claims 7 to 10, wherein in addition to the GPS device (GPS 1, GPS2 ... GPSN) for determining the geolocation information, for each transport vehicles (MDT1, MDT2 ... MDTn), means are provided for collection data on load weight, engine status, fuel consumption, which data being collected and recorded at said operations center (50).

12. System as claimed in claims 7 to 11, wherein said web platform provides for the preparation of statistical information on transports, routes, vehicles and operators, so as to carry out an assignment as far as possible optimized for each transport service request.

13. System as claimed any claim from 7 to 12, wherein said web platform comprises an online payment system related to the freight rate of the shipment that is paid into a current account or Paypal account of the transporter with an instantaneous deduction of a commission from the paid amount.