RFID AS A TOOL OF COMPETITIVENESS INCREASE OF RAIL FREIGHT

Abstract

Nowadays huge of goods is transported by road although there is requirement to greener logistic. Unfortunately if rail freight transport wants to be competitive to road transport, many changes must be done. Slovak railways freight transport has many barriers and bottlenecks and although private carriers are not real competition right now, later situation can change. So there must be new ways how to improve goods transport while anticipating resource and environmental constraints. From that point of view, implementation of RFID technology sounds as good solution for increase of competitiveness of rail freight.

Keywords

• rfid
• rfid tag
• freight transport
• wagon