This project explores an improved design for a system that tracks drive and rest time data for heavy vehicle drivers. Tracking rest and driving time data for drivers of heavy vehicles is important since it allows for the drivers to ensure that they are following the laws related to how often they must take breaks. The system built in this project is external to the vehicles. It relies on sending smaller status updates then previously, thus decreasing the data required to track the drive and rest times. The system was evaluated in terms of how much data it saves compared to a system that sends full status updates, it was also evaluated on how the cost scales with an increased load on the system.

Goal number 12 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations (UN)emphasises on how the increase in the world population is hampering the achievement ofenvironmental sustainability. The diminishing resources of nature draw attention to the factthat more innovative methods need to salvage the environment and the planet at large.Textiles or clothing are one of the essential things that every human owns and with a globalpopulation of over 7 billion, there is an urgency to find ways to reduce its production, due tothe number of resources used and the amount of emissions the textile/clothing industryproduces.The Swedish Red Cross is a charitable organisation that deals with second-hand clothing toraise profits for its activities while contributing to environmental sustainability. Their secondhandretail shops give customers value for their money while extending the lifecycle of clothes.Due to their non-profitable nature puts much pressure on their finances. The need for revenuecalls for finding more environmentally sustainable ways of making a profit out of the clothesthey receive while evaluating the transportation options to reduce cost.Literature review and route optimisation in ArcGIS are used in the analysis. Driving timeanalysis is carried out to link stores to the closest depots to provide graphical and efficientmeans of reaching all the stores. The review of literature offers insights for environmentallysustainable ways of making a profit from second-hand clothes.The outcome provides results which will help generate more profit as well as cut down themajor contributor to the high transportation cost by more than 50%. Moreover, a suggestion ismade for a new time frame and a new travel mode to improve the coordination between thestores and the depots

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:51:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 4943.pdf: 1876687 bytes, checksum: 98250f95dbe7fad296ca56336a5c7afc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-28 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The present study has for objective to identify effects of the productive reorganization in the work of truck drivers, in the period between 1980 and 1990 in Brazil. This research is a study of case about two companies of road haulage (RH), with tradition in the segment. They had been selected on the basis of the time of performance in the market, regions of operation and localization of the company. Following criteria defined previously, involving mainly the work time, drivers (salary earning and aggregate) and managers of different areas had been interviewed with a focus on trajectory of work within the company. Beyond the study of case, the bibliographical research on the history of the RH in Brazil contributed to understand the moment the road haulage becames predominant in the country and why. The results show that, historically, the road transport always was connected to the industrial sector and that the changes in the management of the production of this sector had direct impact in the management of the transports. Thus, since the 1990s, the transporters have increased the agility of the process of transport, reduced costs and time spent, guaranteeing the quality of the services given through the use of concepts and practices linked to Suplly Chain Management (SCM) and Logistics. New practices in an old labor model: new employment contracts to reduce costs and avoid the limitations of labor law (outsourcing), extension of working hours and remuneration for productivity (to drive more is to earn more). The absence of an adequate legislation that regulates the activities of the RH and imposes limits to the drive time and distinguishes it and the work time, equally contributes to the long labor journey to become one more factor of risk in this profession, especially between the drivers who work with fast orders lines. / O presente estudo tem por objetivo identificar os efeitos da reestruturação produtiva no trabalho dos motoristas de caminhão, no período compreendido entre os anos 1980 e 1990, no Brasil. Por meio do estudo de caso, duas empresas de transporte rodoviário de carga (TRC), com tradição nesse segmento, foram selecionadas com base no tempo de atuação no mercado, regiões atendidas e localização da matriz. Seguindo critérios previamente definidos, principalmente no que diz respeito ao tempo de trabalho, motoristas (assalariados e agregados) e gerentes de diferentes áreas foram entrevistados sobre a sua trajetória de trabalho no interior de cada empresa. Além do estudo de caso, a pesquisa bibliográfica sobre a história do TRC no Brasil contribuiu para entender em que momento o modal rodoviário tornou-se predominante no país e por quê. Os resultados mostram que, historicamente, o transporte rodoviário de carga sempre esteve atrelado ao setor industrial e que as mudanças na gestão da produção desse setor impactam diretamente na gestão dos transportes. Assim, desde os anos 1990, as transportadoras têm conseguido agilizar todo o processo de movimentação de cargas, bem como reduzir custos e prazos, garantindo a qualidade dos serviços prestados por meio dos conceitos e práticas do Suplly Chain Management (SCM) e da logística. São práticas novas em meio a um velho modelo trabalhista, que resultou em: terceirização da mão-de-obra como forma de driblar a legislação trabalhista e reduzir custos; contratos de trabalho que visam a remuneração com base na produtividade (quem dirige mais recebe mais) e jornada de trabalho prolongada. A ausência de uma legislação adequada que regulamente as atividades do TRC e que limite o tempo de direção e o diferencie do tempo de trabalho, igualmente contribui para que a organização do trabalho torne-se mais um fator de risco nessa profissão, especialmente entre os motoristas que atuam em linhas de encomendas rápidas.

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