The final event of our flagship project took place on May 22, 2025! 90 guests were registered to hear firsthand the results of our four pilot projects and the digital twin. One of the many highlights was the fishbowl discussion, in which experts from the logistics industry discussed the question “From your perspective: What are…
Last week, ReMuNet held a productive workshop at the 4PL offices in Rotenburg, bringing together FIR an der RWTH, 4PL, PTV, MANSIO, and VEDIA. The discussions centered on the platform’s architecture, user journey, and initial preparations for the piloting phase. ReMuNet is developing a digital platform to improve the efficiency and resilience of multimodal freight…
After three years of intensive research, this research journey came to an end with a pleasant final meeting at the KLU ( Kühne Logistics University ) in Hamburg. After an overview of the HEGEL project as a whole, each project partner presented the most important results from their respective focus areas. Accordingly, the presentations included…
An expert workshop was held by DLR and 4PL Intermodal at the Institute for Transport Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin Adlershof on September 23, 2024. As part of the HEGEL research project, the companies met to discuss new ideas and advances in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in…
The consortium formed under the leadership of BEHALA met in person for the first time in Berlin on Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 with all five consortium partners at Berlin’s Westhafen with the funding provider and officially started the project. The consortium consists of the following companies: The funding body presented and explained the framework conditions…
The research project, funded by the European Union, was officially launched on 01.07.2023 and is scheduled to run for three years. The consortium leader is the FIR, Aachen. The FIR is a non-profit, cross-industry research and training institution at RWTH Aachen University in the field of business organization, information logistics and corporate IT with the…
The national mFund research project HEGEL ( Hypernetwork of German Logistics -Nutzung des Potenzials von Hypernetzwerken in Güterverkehr und Logistik ) has reached its first milestone. This was submitted to the project sponsor in the first interim report. 4PL Intermodal participated in the following work packages: The current results of the project give rise to…
In Vienna, on 31.05.2022, the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection was presented with a report on the project. The PhysICAL project was reported to the funding body, the consortium partners, politicians and interested parties from the economy. There were 120 participants from all areas of transport logistics as well as guests from politics and…
The core of increasing productivity in modern and successful intermodal companies is digitalisation and cooperative implementation strategies. The PhysICAL flagship project tasks the cooperation partners with the practical implementation of this attitude. Fraunhofer Research Austria, Austrian Institute of Technology AIT, Logistics Research Austria, ERS Railways GmbH and 4PL intermodal GmbH therefore met at the AIT…
One of the aims of the Austrian PhysICAL research project is to raise awareness of resource-efficient transport services in the intermodal booking process by increasing transparency. This should be achieved, among other things, by a suitable processing and presentation of the consumption values PLAN / ACTUAL in the production process. In current intermodal transports, comparisons…
4PL Intermodal is one of 6 consortium partners of HEGEL. Within this 3 years ongoing research programm we offer students from Kühne Logistics University (KLU) Hamburg to take part in an internship at 4PL. Initially Gijs Kool applied for an opportunity to recess his knowledge in intermodal business. As well as we on 4PL side…
On Tuesday, 22.03.2022, international scientists gave keynote speeches at the HEGEL kick-off event. This summary contains the most important points and findings from the six different keynote speeches. Prof. Dr. Lóri Tavasszy: “Super- and Hypernetworks: A Physical Internet perspective” In logistics, the meaning of the word “network” is more than just transportation and even more…