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…
The SGKV “Study Society for Combined Goods Transport e.V.” based in Berlin organizes an information event once a year for participants in intermodal freight transport. This year 2021 the motto of the event is “CO2021“. On the 6th Terminal Day, actors from politics, business and science will answer these questions, among others: Combined transport (CT)…
The lead project PhysICAL had achieved the underlying objectives of the first section by the end of the first reporting period. The participants in the consortium work together in all work packages and pilots towards the goal of cooperating and using existing synergies. The consortium project comprises 17 consortium partners with around 50 people, all…
Towards a smart hyperconnected era of efficient and sustainable logistics, supply chains and transportation IPIC 2021 – 8th International Physical Internet Conference June 14-16, 2021 | Virtual The PhysICAL project and our involvement with IMSLOT Modules technology were scientifically deepened at the conference with a separate session. SESSION 6 Transportation planning and collaboration Moderated by…
“We do research for a better environment” says Dr. Sandra Stein (Fraunhofer Research Austria, Vienna).
This slogan is the subtitle of PhysICAL; the ambitious 4-year Austrian research project.