Method, computer system and computer system network

摘要

A computer system for providing a centralised register of transport provider permanent booking agreements between a plurality of transport providers and a plurality of forwarders is dislosed. The booking agreements relate to capacity on routes between stations in a transport system. The computer system includes a processing unit, an interface unit for communication with said processing unit, and a memory unit. The computer system is configured to receive one or more transport provider allotment templates from a plurality of transport providers. Each allotment template comprises template data representing a permanent booking agrement between a transport provider and a forwarder. The template data comprises data representative of one or more route leg instances and data representative of an agreement capacity value for at least one of said one or more route leg instances. The computer system is configured to store a record of said allotment templates in the memory unit. Access to the record is provided to a plurality of forwarders such that each forwarder can view at least part of the template data of each allotment template which represents a permanent booking agreement between the forwarder and one or more transport providers. Access to the template data of allotment templates representing a permanent booking agreement between another forwarder and said one or more transport providers is not provided.