Hubs for People and Goods: nodes to achieve societal goals

For urban planning challenges, such as increasing scarcity of space, hubs can pose a solution. In this paper we define hubs as an interchange, transhipment and/or node consisting of different activities, services and facilities. Hubs have the potential to contribute to urban challenges concerning mobility, logistics, livability, sustainability, ...

Living labs: an approach for achieving sustainable change in city logistics

The Living lab is an approach that allows for improving the co-creation processes, putting the end-users at the heart of innovation, realizing new business models, looking for new roles for traditional stakeholders in the innovation process, and a more directed innovation preparation and deployment process. This article describes experiences of...

Towards a federated infrastructure for the global data pipeline

Interoperability in logistics is a prerequisite for realizing data pipelines and the Physical Internet. Forecasting data, real time data, and actual positions of shipments, containers, and transport means shared via events have to be harmonized and are expected to improve all types of processes, support synchromodal planning, and improve risk...

Roadmap towards a smart logistics ecosystem

Currently, the fundamentals of a technical infrastructure for a logistics ‘systems-of-systems’ are laid, facilitating improved, more effective and efficient logistics services based on higher levels of self-organization. Through situation awareness with enhanced methods for sharing (real-time) data, logistic stakeholders can improve decision...

Facilitating adoption of international information infrastructures: A living labs approach

One of the key challenges that governments face in supervising international supply chains is the need for improving the quality of data accompanying the logistics flow. In many supply chains, individual parties in the chain work with low quality data for their operations and compliance, even though somewhere in the supply chain, better data is...