PLANET LL1 evaluates how novel technologies and concepts such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML) or Physical Internet (PI) can enhance the efficiency of the processes and operations performed along the door-to-door (D2D) transport and logistics in the link between the Maritime Silk Road and EU internal corridors.
LL2 focuses on dynamic and synchro modal management (achieving synergies between) of TEN-T & intercontinental rail freight flows, utilising the Port of Rotterdam (PoR) as the principal smart EGTN node centering rail focused transport chains. This will focus on intercontinental rail freight between China and the EU, but also on linking China and Russia through Rotterdam to/from USA and the UK (shortsea and ocean freight).
Specifically, this LL addresses improvements and growth in the transportation of rail freight between China-USA and the UK with the PoR as transshipment and modality shift point. Other close central transhipment nodes (e.g., Germany/Poland) located on a TEN-T or Rail Freight Corridors (RFCs) - in particular on the RFC8 – North Sea-Baltic corridor- will be also taken into account.
PLANET LL3 focuses on streamlining logistic processes in flows from China to Europe along the Silk Road by implementing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies (based on the Electronic Product Code Information Services, EPCIS, platform) and GS1 standards that facilitate transmission of data between the partners involved in the e-commerce operations.