Abstract

The main focus of this project is to magnify and accelerate the impact offered by the integration of the most recent peer-to-peer ICT advances to multi-modal freight operations, and to demonstrate its potential by several use cases. The peer-to-peer approach blocks dominant players from capturing the market, ensures equal opportunities for different size actors, and avoids vendor lock-in. The essence of our peer-to-peer approach is that the cloud enabled transport management system is distributed over multiple actors according to their computational resources. The result is a distributed system with a network of interactions between actors and entities, which enables smart and innovative data based services. The project will build a platform for logistics management based on IDS and blockchain technologies, combine those with IoT data, and study how the peer-to-peer approach can solve real logistics challenges in three pilot cases. The evaluation of the pilots will result in practical experience in the development and use of these technologies, understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the approach, and the needs for interaction between the different technologies. Parallel work on business model implications will investigate new innovation opportunities and ecosystem effects. This will allow us to make recommendations for future systems, including the needs for development, standardization, and other activities, which are necessary to bring the enhanced logistics solutions into operational use. The proposal covers all three issues of the work program by providing a platform for sharing data and using it for optimal planning, making dynamic rerouting decisions based on IoT data of cargo and vehicle state, and supporting interoperability between different actors in the logistic chains.