The objectives of the SMARTFREIGHT project are to:

• Develop new traffic management measures towards individual freight vehicles through open ICT services, on-board equipment and integrated wireless communication infrastructure
• Assign different service levels to freight vehicles, depending on their environmental profile, type of goods transport and destination
• Grant priorities and access rights depending on the service level and traffic situation
• Allocate routes and times slots to freight vehicles to minimise conflicts and congestion
• Track and monitor vehicles carrying dangerous cargo
• Collect information for statistics
• Support control that enables enforcement
• Improve awareness in case of incidents
• Improve the interoperability between traffic management and freight distribution systems
• Provide information that improves route planning for transport companies, such as more accurate transport network information, traffic and travel time information, through open ICT services
• Coordinate all freight distribution operations within a city by means of open ICT services, on-board equipment, wireless communication infrastructure and CALM MAIL implementation in on-board and on-cargo units, for all freight vehicles
• Routing and re-routing for scheduled freight and service vehicles
• Provide information that improves the efficiency of these fleets
• Manage the use of loading and unloading areas
• Track freight vehicles
• Track cargo
• Monitor the status of cargo