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Worried about innovation in (logistics) your business?

Innovation is a big challenge for the transport and logistics sector, which are often claimed to be little investing in new technologies and new approaches to improve the efficiency and the economic income of enterprises.

ECITL 2012 press text and announcement of the ECITL 2013

Latest news from the ECITL organization! The presstext regarding last ECITL Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, has been released and is attached to this news. The document officially announces the next edition of ECITL in Zaragoza (Spain). ECITL 2013 will be coorganized by the Government of Aragon (Spain), the Instituto Technólogico de Aragon (ITA) and the Austrian Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences. For more details see the attached document or visit: http://www.ecitl.eu..

5th European Conference on ICT for Transport Logistics (ECITL 2012)

We are pleased to announce the 5th European Conference on ICT for Transport Logistics (ECITL '12) on November 7-9, 2012 in Gothenburg, Sweden. This year's conference will focus on "Smart Freight to enable sustainable logistics solutions" and will highlight innovations and applications in this area. Read more about 5th European Conference on ICT for Transport Logistics (ECITL 2012)

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Logistics for LIFE final event

The Logistics for LIFE project is glad to invite you all to its final event, on the 23rd-26th April 2012, in Athens. The event will take place at the Megaron Athens International Conference Centre, in the occasion of the TRA Conference 2012. Read more about Logistics for LIFE final event

Interoperability between traffic management and freight distribution management systems

 Currently there is a clear separation between road traffic management and freight management. The traffic management objectives are to ensure traffic safety for all road users and utilize the capacity while minimizing the environmental emissions. The freight distribution management objectives are to deliver freight in the most cost efficient way while ensuring the user requirements (where environmental aspect is included). The task of the driver of the vehicle can be separated into two parts, one part fulfilling the traffic management objectives, i.e. Read more about Interoperability between traffic management and freight distribution management systems

Technology standards

 Generally speaking, which is also valid for the transport and logistics domains, we can differentiate the necessary ICT standards into standards for communication – how to actually communicate – and standards for information – what to actually exchange. This article refers to “technology standards” as those addressing the communication aspect, while standardization of the information exchanges content will be addressed in other articles. Read more about Technology standards

Cooperative systems technology testing and validation

 There has been a trend to only test and validate single technologies without looking beyond for how the different technologies work together in different research projects as well as in industry initiatives. Non-compatible technologies have lower probability of reaching the large markets, while a compatible products situation is stable independent of customer base sizes (Chen, et al., 2009). It is important for new technology developments to incorporate and complement what exists in the world outside of its organization or domain. Read more about Cooperative systems technology testing and validation

Agreement on concepts, services and stakeholder involvement

 A fundamental result of the ICT and business performance literature is that ICT is not a driver of performance per se (Francalanci and Morabito, 2008) and a significant impact of ICT is achievable when accompanied by organizational change and collaboration. Hence agreement on concepts, services and stakeholder involvement addresses the need to consider “soft issues”, such as organisational aspects and new business models. Read more about Agreement on concepts, services and stakeholder involvement

Tackling the challenge of advanced ICT adoption

 Expert consensus is that ICT can enable substantial sustainability improvement (Huschebeck et al., 2009 and Belella et al, 2009). While transport of people has gained substantial research interest it is still unclear how freight transport operations can be improved (Sternberg, 2011b). Usually significant effects (so called “aggregated level” effects) of ICT can only be achieved if several organizations adopt ICT and collaborate on streamlining business processes. Read more about Tackling the challenge of advanced ICT adoption

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