Data Logistics 4 Logistics Data

The Topsector Logistics in the Netherlands has formulated its ambition for 2020 to achieve a leading international position in the handling of goods flows and as an international logistics chain manager. To achieve these objectives real time data should be exchanged on a much larger scale in order to optimise processes, maximise business value and comply with various legal requirements. This includes the ability to form temporary business alliances in which organizations partner in one logistic chain and compete in others. The agility and diversity of players, the increasing number of data sources and potential risk of data being misused, makes it necessary to create a common infrastructure to access and share data. Instead of sharing data with another company, data are offered to a limited, community certified, and growing set of computer programs running on dedicated distributed computing platforms. This future collective data infrastructure, which provides data and services of several Service Providers, must be ubiquitously available. Services range from available transport capacity, location and condition of cargo, expected times of arrival to identification of bottlenecks, maintenance and accidents on the physical infrastructure. Essentially these services rely on a data sharing infrastructure. Yet, to embark on a path leading to a logistic data and service infrastructure, every stakeholder involved must trust that infrastructure. This project delivers a technical solution in the form of a validated blueprint that provides the necessary trust to share data. Trust includes the guaranty that the abuse of exchanged data is minimised. We anticipate on the results of other projects, like NLIP iShare on identity and authentication and authorization. Our project also provides the governance structures to organise data sharing and its associated benefits. Our project runs in the context of the Commit2Data objectives. We will organise communities with providers and users of data, point out the practical business opportunities and organise short term projects to define, develop and evaluate new capabilities. We implement the new capabilities on the experimental facility, the Amsterdam (including KLM and Arena) Field Labs and the TNO Intrepid open facility. We use the development resources of C2D Big Data Hubs to connect the experimental facilities to systems of users and providers of data. International valorisation is via relevant standardisation bodies as well as the EC DG Move Digital Transport and Logistics Forum. The project will realize a blueprint for data infrastructure which will be disseminated to several IT and Logistics service providers and the NLIP. The project partners TNO and UvA will progress their open experimental facilities to support a variety of business cases and external research projects.