Intelligent Transportation Solutions

Vienna, Va. – For the second time, NTELX was invited to present its intelligent transportation approach for improving the coordination between land-side transport and seaports to the World Bank on October 26. The presentation will cover both the company’s current operations in Jordan and its plans in Pakistan.

NTELX is launching a business development study in Pakistan to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and boost visibility for that nation’s trade and transport sectors through a privately funded and managed freight transportation information system.  The system will provide for Pakistan’s transport, trade, and logistics communities a set of linked services to improve operational decision-making, leveraging validated information with advanced analytic tools.  The system will start at the ports in Karachi and radiate across the country.

NTELX successfully deployed and currently operates an information-based system to coordinate the movement of trucks through Jordan’s port city of Aqaba. Wait times are minimized by combining intelligent transportation applications that collect, validate, and share information with sophisticated routing and scheduling algorithms and near real-time visibility for users. The system has cut inland transport costs by 20%, while reducing chaos, taming congestion, and eliminating an estimated 5,000 tons of carbon emissions annually.  In 2009, NTELX won an award for the best use of advanced technology in surface transportation worldwide from the Intelligent Transportation Society of America.

“We are pleased to be returning to the World Bank to share our approach for how the large amount of data naturally produced by transport and trade can improve operational decisions that cut costs and increase efficiency,” said NTELX CEO Rob Quartel.  “This is an approach that we believe is applicable in many countries, including Pakistan, where we hope to have a business launch during 2011.”

About NTELX

NTELX delivers both the technology and the methodology needed to improve mission-critical operating decisions dramatically.  NTELX approaches projects with a resolute desire to solve problems, offering critical insights drawn from its diverse experiences, broad technological expertise, and distinctive history of success.  The company serves clients that have big challenges, too much data, and a commitment to do the job.  NTELX provides the automated, data-driven decision analytics that move transportation, security, food, drug, intelligence, health, and other clients from insight to action.

About the World Bank

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Their mission is to fight poverty and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.  The World Bank is made up of two unique development institutions owned by 187 member countries: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA).