Intelligent Cargo

Truly collaborative, sustainable supply chains

Consider what happens when cargo supports the process instead of being silent objects.

• Vehicles talk to systems and to each other to synchronise movements and logistics operations across various modes and actors to become more efficient and lower CO2 emissions.
• Logistics services adapt to changing conditions through dynamic planning methods involving intelligent cargo, vehicle and infrastructure systems.
• Services, resources and information from different stakeholders combine to take part in an open freight management ecosystem.

Cargo—the movement of goods from point A to point B—is the life force of our logistics and supply chain systems. Companies, industries and people depend on goods moving around the world to reach them safely, securely and on time.

Yet many of our logistics systems are inadequate to serve the needs of the 21st century. Many tracking solutions already exist in the logistics world but these are designed to support very specific business process and often have severe limitations as goods move across different business domains and modes of transport.

The information available to organisations is therefore limited and affected by other organisations processes. By integrating technology and intelligence into cargo, we can improve the efficiency of supply chains, reduce emissions and ensure product integrity and regulatory compliance.

Logicas solutions for the logistics industry enables complete control over the supply chain. It streamlines information flow across business domains, lowers technical and semantic barriers and enables business process improvement.

At Logica we work towards enabling a decentralised ICT infrastructure that allows real world objects, new planning services including CO2 calculation capabilities and existing systems to co-exist and efficiently co-operate at an affordable cost for logistics stakeholders.

Our vision is for intelligent cargo items to facilitate automated reactive decision-making and to integrate information obtained from on-going execution (all modes) into planning processes to optimise environmental performances, including real-time information about traffic and transport infrastructure conditions.

We are also proud to be involved in EURIDICE and the iCargo projects – to realise an intelligent cargo ecosystem that will establish the most advanced information services for freight transportation in Europe. EURIDICE, which stands for European interdisciplinary Research on Intelligent Cargo for Efficient Safe and Environmentally-Friendly logistics, is co-funded by the European Commission. The successor is the iCArgo project to realise operational implementions of the Intelligent Cargo concepts, also funded by the European Committee.

Intelligent cargo will have a significant impact in terms of the deployment and effectiveness of technology support for freight transportation. It will increase the competitiveness of Europe as one of the most important economies in the world. In addition, it will improve the quality of life by streamlining distribution networks around large city areas which helps reducing traffic congestion as well as pollution.

Click here to know more about the Euridice project.
Click here to know more about the iCargo project.