The article highlights the growing importance of quality requirements in modern transport systems. It emphasizes the necessity of acquiring appropriate data to assess the quality of the analyzed transport applications. It points out the possibilities of using telematics systems in this regard, which enable the implementation of this process through automatic data acquisition. Basic functional and technical requirements for such telematic solutions were formulated, and their exemplary use was demonstrated.INTRODUCTION
The dynamic development of transport infrastructure leads to a continuous increase in quantitative and qualitative requirements placed on transport systems. Among the qualitative ones, safety expectations take first place, the importance of which for modern transport is of a special nature. Equally important are the requirements placed on transport systems that directly translate into potential financial benefits or losses. Recently, in the face of the global economic crisis and sharp increases in fuel prices, they have gained even greater significance. However, an attempt to assess them requires obtaining parameters that characterize them, such as service and waiting times in solutions similar in structure and functionality to classic mass service systems. Like any process, this one will also require certain financial outlays and constant costs for its implementation. Among them, personnel costs related to employee remuneration will, as always, occupy a key position. It is therefore not surprising that attempts are constantly being made to search for and implement solutions aimed at reducing these types of costs, usually carried out through broadly understood automation. Telematics systems, which by nature integrate telecommunications and IT solutions in transport applications, prove helpful here. Therefore, the need to define technical and functional requirements for such systems, used to acquire data for assessing the quality of the analyzed transport system in the most automatic way possible, seems obvious. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 4/2011