The Design And Development Of Postal Vehicle Operation GPS Management System

While there is an increasing fierceness of competition after the opening of domestic express logistics service and as well the abroad express logistics tycoons' entering directly in china, with a rise of large domestic third party logistics enterprises,China Post is faced with a more and more severe test in the field of express logistics service. Thus to create new competitiveness and to strengthen the existing competitiveness are both necessary.Meanwhile,as a branch of logistics,the postal express logistics business is developping amazingly but it still remains to be perfected in development of infermation system in some links. For example, the network of postal logistics transportation, core competitiveness of Postal express logistics, still lacks effective informative ways to control meticulously as the relative competive advantage of China Post. This leads to an uncontrollable timelimite of transportation and oporation cost, a lack of information for resource modification and of initiative to track auident, etc. For these reasons,to bad in a relatively maturer technology is in nees now:the GPS (Global Position System) technology and the GIS (Geographical Information System) technology. By collecting the information of vehicles' position, combining with information of time, post route, state of postal vehicles, mission and personnal, a comprehensive analysis could get done, Then the purpose of vehicle monitoring, time limite managing, cost analysing resource modifying and effect checking coule be realized, It is of great significance to strengthen the advantages of Postal transport network, whick will give China Post express service a marked competitive advantage.It is quite necessary and urgent to introduce the GPS technology, combining with business rules of practice network of China Post, to carry out with a deeptechnical and business intgration, and develop a vihicle tracking positioning and management system which suits the postal logistics transportation, for this will increase greatly the degree of accuracy of Postal material object transportation management.The Postal Vehicle GPS Operation Management System is self-developped by the information technology in Hubei Province Post Center. It was honored the third prize for the Information and Technology Progress Prize of China Post. It has got applied in first main line transportation of Hubei Post and Guangxi Post,and part of second main line transportation.The study based on the background of introducing system development, which aims to explain the whole process in designing and realizing of the system in details. It mainly focuses on the business demand, system configuration designing, system realizing, and system testing and checking. Moreover, it tends to state the possibilities in perfection and extending of the system in need, which considers as the further improvement in the future.