Volpe Center Highlights - October/November 2001
National Security
Director's Notes |
Focus |
Safety |
Mobility |
Human and Natural Environment
Economic Growth and Trade |
National Security |
Papers and Presentations
Expediting Army Shipments in the European Theater (U.S. Army Theater Support Command)
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Ensure the security of the transportation system for the movement of people and goods,
and support the National Security Strategy. |
For more than six years, the Volpe Center has been providing logistics support to the U.S. Army 21st Theater Support Command's Theater Distribution Center (TDC) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. As part of this effort, Volpe developed and supports the Shipping, Tracking, and Redistribution System (STARS) software. STARS is a freight transportation and distribution system designed to improve the operation of the Army's "hub-and-spoke" distribution system, by which goods are transported daily between the TDC (the hub) and its customer sites (the spokes) in the European Theater. STARS improves the accuracy and speed of the TDC's redistribution shipping, receiving, planning, and documentation activities by integrating manual input/output with automated identification technologies such as radio frequency tags and optical memory cards. The software can be operated on a laptop computer for use during military deployments.
On August 3, 2001, Ms. Ruth Hunter of the Intermodal Logistics Systems Planning and Integration Division electronically transmitted the STARS Maintenance Release #5 software and associated documentation to the TDC. The latest STARS release provides the Army with the capability to produce an itemized cargo-packing list, which will expedite Army shipments crossing the Macedonian border.
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