Research Article

The Business Process Reconstruction of Railway-River Combined Transportation Cloud Platform Taking China Container Export as an Example

Table 1

Comparison of technical advantages between decentralized layout and centralized mode.

Indicators/modelsDistributed layoutLarge concentration mode

Business standardizationPort business process is not unified and data management is difficultAll port business processes are standardized and unified
Information sharingIt is difficult to realize information sharing among ports, and the data are scattered in each port, so it is difficult to extract and mine the dataThe data can be stored in a unified way, the information between ports can be shared in real time, the reading is limited by the permission system, and the data mining is easy
Construction costRepeated investment and high maintenance cost of portOne-time investment and centralized operation and maintenance by combined transport management organizations
Application development and update difficultyThe “chimney” structure is adopted, and the system renewal cycle is longUsing the virtual software package, the system update cycle is short
Information exchange modeInformation interaction based on system has low resource utilization, high interaction cost, low efficiency, and poor reliabilityInformation is exchanged through cloud service mode, and service resources can be shared among tenants with high utilization rate; it is cheap to rent services on demand instead of purchasing software; the service port is unified and can be accessed anytime and anywhere, with large service capacity and high reliability
Operation and maintenance modeVertical operation and maintenance mode, serious redundancy of operation and maintenance personnel, low utilization and efficiencyFlat operation and maintenance mode, highly shared operation and maintenance personnel, high utilization and efficiency