Several Horizon Europe projects starting in 2022 and 2023 will advance the implementation of the PI roadmap.
Four Horizon Europe projects are mapped as:
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Demonstration of PI-enabled innovative solutions on urban logistics with . A key component of the project is the replication of its results and lessons learned. This will facilitated by its URBANE Innovation Transferability Platform comprising Digital Twinning Tools,
open models, smart contracts governed by blockchain technology and a data-driven
Impact Assessment Radar. |
Access & Adoption – Generation 2 Sectorial regional, seamless vertical PI demonstration |
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Demonstration of the full potential of decarbonised last mile logistics facilitated by the creation of a collaborative urban consolidation logistics framework that will include a digital platform, methodologies for collaboration, and ICT and IoT tools. This common framework, along with tailored innovative business models and recommendations on local policies, will allow for a strong collaboration during the project, allow to learn more about the end-users’ needs and behaviours. |
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Accelerating systemic changes in last mile delivery ecosystems for economically, environmentally and socially sustainable city logistics. The project establishes city platforms comprising of inclusive stakeholder Urban Living Labs for nurturing social innovation, designing and deploying innovative delivery solutions while allowing the most effective exchange of ideas, the development of robust, harmonized regulatory and policy frameworks, and cooperative business models that build upon effective public/private-sector collaboration and joint investments. |
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MultiRELOAD focusses on using inland ports as multimodal freight nodes to shifting a substantial part of freight carried today by road to inland waterways and rail. |
Logistics nodes – Generation 2 Open & seamless nodes service offering |
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FOR-FREIGHT helps realise this green transition by utilising multimodal freight transport that integrates legacy logistics systems with new technologies. This novel solution will allow better monitoring of goods and emissions throughout the transport process, improved logistics that make freight transport more cost-efficient and sustainable, and decision support for better resource efficiency and adaptability in the changing market. |
Logistics networks – Generation 2 Operational synchoromodality/physical internets |
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SARIL |
SARIL aims to complement the classic definition of resilience, which focuses on threat prevention, robustness and system recovery, by green aspects. Key performance indicators will be defined which quantify both, the system resistance against disruptions as well as the environmental burden of freight transport. Adopting three different scenarios on different geographical scales (regional, national and international/EU), models will be developed which are able to capture the unperturbed system operation as well as the behavior in case of a disruptions. While the regional (Italy) and national (Spain/Portugal) scenarios focus on natural hazards which become more threatening due to climate change, the international scenario (Northern/Central Europe) considers the disruptions due to pandemics (like Cov19) or wars (like the Russian war against Ukraine). Although the three scenarios will be modelled with varying levels of detail, SARIL aims at a universal understanding of green resilience by using a common framework. The results for the three scenarios will be used to assess similarities and differences between the three geographical scales. |
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ReMuNet26 |
ReMuNet identifies and signals disruptive events and assesses their impact on multimodal transport corridors. ReMuNet orchestrates route utilization, suggests transshipment points and optimizes capacity allocation, minimizing damage and shortening the recovery time. As trailblazer for the Physical Internet, ReMuNet pursues the vision to enable and incentivize synchro-modal relay, transport on European rail, road, and inland waterways to increase the holistic network resilience. It significantly reduces emissions and boosts freight transport corridor efficiency in case of disruptive events. It uses real-time data for dynamic synchromodal alternative route planning, develops model and evaluate alternative courses of action, providing the basis for a self-learning, adaptive multimodal European freight transport and logistics network. |
System of logistics networks towards the PI Generation 3 Extended inter-network connectivity |
One of the main barriers to the application of PI is the shortcoming of exiting models and algorithms that meet the real world requirements. Forthcoming projects, such as SARIL and ReMuNe, will address this and develop models and algorithms using real-time data.
In the recently closed calls as well in the coming calls of Horizon Europe, new projects are expected to contribute to the implementation of the PI roadmap. Potential contributions of those projects are mapped as shown below.
