AK E-Logistics & Digital Supply Chain

The working group meeting will focus on the topic of ‘Intermodal Transport in Logistics’ and discuss how road, rail and waterways can be better linked, digitally connected and combined more efficiently. In view of increasing demands for resilience, sustainability, capacity and cost-effectiveness, the intelligent integration of different modes of transport is becoming ever more important. At the same time, practical hurdles remain in terms of data availability, bookability, standardisation, terminal processes and the scaling of intermodal services.

From the OLF, Carina Tüllmann, CCO of Open Logistics Foundation and Martin Schulze, Managing Director of BusinessCode GmbH, will be joining the conference and speaking in the session “No combined transport without digital standards” from 11:50 CET.

The session will focus on how physical links between road, rail and waterways are well established, but the digital links often are not. For the cost-effective scaling of intermodal transport, common standards for status information, order data and event notifications are required – for example, for the dynamic optimisation of time slots. The presentation highlights current challenges from a business perspective and introduces open-source approaches to standardisation. The aim is to simplify the usability of intermodal services.

Please note that this conference is a Biktom internal meeting and only open to Biktom working group members.