Secure Motor Carrier Blockchain

The Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) requires a secure platform with a distributed ledger on which to exchange information among motor carriers, inspection facilities, and Federal and State government facilities. Primary concerns associated with implementing a private blockchain architecture are cost-effectiveness and compliance with information security requirements to ensure confidentiality, integrity, privacy, and security. To address this DOT need, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Secure Motor Carrier Blockchain (SMCBlock) based on existing blockchain frameworks and protocols and customized not only for information security, but also to improve data quality, increase timeliness, and reduce costs for the FMCSA. SMCBlock’s customizations include a POC-developed, in-line media encryptor for data security and the scalability to process real-time, reliable data, available to all States. The innovative SMCBlock software solution will retain all transactions desired to be written to the ledger while handling challenges incurred due to nodes disconnecting from the network. All blockchain data will be signed and timestamped and remain immutable and unbreakable. Malicious attempts to modify the blockchain will be unaccepted and immediately flagged. The proposed SMCBlock technology provides a forward-looking architecture capable of interacting with existing FMCSA networks.