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和同步操作的性能。当以优化共享资源的使用为核心目标并成为提供气候友好型基础设施的基础时，使用采用上述智能服务的新型商业模式可以使转移和交付受益。同步操作和异构物流服务集成的目标是减少当前的转移，以减少碳足迹，同时确保不间断的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，具有与计划，调度，优化和事件管理相关的功能，以及使用区块链技术来促进智能合约和财务操作的实时结论，因此，成为在当前物流框架上提供“智能覆盖”的第一次尝试之一。TRACE设想在不同的欧洲国家有不同目标的真实演示，从使用共享资源的运输开始，破坏性事件检测和重新调度运输，最后使用无人驾驶车辆实现最后一英里的自动化交付。TRACE还提出了新的中转走廊，无人驾驶车辆可以收集物品到最终目的地的安全区域和新的（虚拟）枢纽。TRACE将对新物流时代的障碍、新的商业机会、对立法和监管框架的要求进行研究，并揭示拟议方法在减少能源需求和排放方面的好处，同时限制物流利益相关者的运营成本。

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.