Hyperconnected Logistics Systems

The Physical Internet facilitates the transport of the future. Material will flow analogous to data in the digital internet. This open logistics system is based on physical, digital and operative connectivity. Participants follow standardized protocols and use specific interfaces and modules. In ATROPINE Upper Austrian researchers and industry partners join forces to design a Physical Internet model region.

Logistikum at University of Applied Sciences Steyr is coordinating an important next step for automated and cross-linked driving in urban environment.

The project team focuses on the following overarching research question: How can safety in intersection situations be increased for all road users through cooperation and communication (C-ITS)?

The introduction of Cooperative Connected Automated Mobility (CCAM) ensures a significant increase of safety, efficiency and effectiveness in road traffic.

However, a safe and efficient CCAM implementation induces new challenges for road operators and automakers.

The DigiTrans project aims to probe a test region for automated and connected driving related to freight transport in the central area of Upper Austria. The test region shall build upon the requirements derived from regional industry and from regional infrastructure operators. Based on elicited requirements and demands the test region’s capabilities and a sustainable operator model are developed.

The aim of the study “iSTRADA” is to develop a specific methodology with advantages for relevant stakeholders when different road-traffic and road-infrastructure databases are combined. The different databases are automatically pooled, completed and updated in order to evolve an innovative and online-usable Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)-service for transport management and logistics applications. The study should deliver the basis for a follow-up research project.

Linking Services in the field af transport of goods could connecting data of several information systems to further can offer new information and booking services for door-to-door transport services operated by different service providers possibly using different modes of transport. The study LiSeGMo is dealing with questions of data accessibility, way to open barriers and the assessment of the

Smart Hyperconnected Logistics Systems investigates human-logistics-technology systems and aims at the development of methods and tools for designing such systems. The focus is on the integrative consideration of Digital Supply Chains, Intelligent Transportation Systems and Automated Driving.

As the volume of traffic is increasing steadily, road operators have to face ever new challenges, due to the fact that there is neither more space nor budget for traffic infrastructure measures. Within the framework of the project ‘SmartFleet LivingLab’ a fleet of intelligently networked vehicles should be established, which should deliver vehicle real-time data in order to give information concerning the current traffic situation. On this basis, in a further step, newly developed traffic management measures respectively systems should provide the possibility for fleet operators as well as all for other affected stakeholders to benefit from less traffic jam situations.

What is the impact of truck platooning on pavement condition and the counter-effects of variations in track off-sets with following trucks on platooning’s positive slipstream effect? This research question has been answered in SPURVARIATION.

The aim of the project TRIUMPH is to develop a concept of an intelligent multimodal communication hub which is capable of connecting all involved parties in the multimodal transport chain by using new standards of electronic data interchange (EDI-standards) and realtime traffic data (ITS). Due to the reduction of complexity by standardization and the elimination of inefficiencies a higher information value is achieved which builds the basis for further transshipment and storage process optimization.