Integration and Harmonization of Logistics Operations

近年来，物流业面临着持续而重大的挑战。趋势是采用智能服务来提高所提供系统的性能和同步模式操作。如果以优化利用共享资源为核心目标，并成为提供气候友好型基础设施的基础，则转让和交付可受益于采用上述智能服务的新型商业模式。同步模式运营和整合不同物流服务的目标是减少当前的转移，以减少碳足迹，同时确保不间断交付和对任何破坏性事件的恢复能力。TRACE的目标是上述整合活动提供一个通用平台，具有与规划、调度、优化和活动管理相关的功能，并使用区块链技术来促进智能合同和财务操作的实时达成，从而成为对现有物流框架提供“智能掩护”的首批尝试之一。TRACE设想在不同的欧洲国家进行真实的演示，目标不同，从使用共享资源的运输开始，检测破坏性事件并重新安排传输时间，最后使用无人驾驶车辆自动完成最后一英里的递送。TRACE还提出了新的转运走廊、无人驾驶车辆可以向最终目的地收集物品的安全区域以及新的(虚拟)枢纽。TRACE将进行与新物流时代的障碍、新的商业机会、对立法和监管框架的要求有关的研究，并揭示拟议方法在减少能源需求和排放方面的好处，同时限制物流利益攸关方的运营成本。

Logistics industry is facing continuous and significant challenges during the recent years. The trend is the adoption of intelligent services for increasing the performance of the provided systems and synchromodal operations. Transfers and deliveries can benefit from the use of novel business models that adopt the aforementioned intelligent services when the optimization of the use of shared resources is the core target and become the basis for the provision of a climate friendly infrastructure. The goal of synchromodal operations and the integration of heterogeneous logistics services is the reduction of current transfers in order to reduce the carbon footprint while securing the uninterrupted deliveries and the resilience to any disruptive event. TRACE targetsto the aforementioned integration activities offering a universal platform with functionalities related to planning, scheduling, optimization and events management as well as the use of blockchain technology to facilitate the real time conclusion of smart contracts and financial operations, thus, becoming one of the first attempts to provide an ‘intelligent cover’ upon the current logistics frameworks. TRACE envisions real demonstrators in different European countries with different goals that start from transportations with the use of shared resources, the disruptive events detection and re-scheduling of transfers while concluding with the use of unmanned vehicles to automate the last mile deliveries. TRACE also proposes new transfer corridors, safe areas where unmanned vehicles can collect items towards the final destination and new (virtual) hubs. TRACE will perform studies related to the barriers towards the new logistics era, the new business opportunities, the requirements for the legislation and regulatory frameworks and expose the benefits of the proposed approach in terms of the reduction for energy demand and emissions while limiting the operational costs for logistics stakeholders.