Project aims to reduce empty running
The UK’s Digital Catapult has launched the Logistics Living Lab, a project that aims to reduce carbon emissions from empty and near-empty delivery trucks.
THE LOGISTICS Living Lab will leverage emerging technologies, including distributed ledger technology and the internet of things, to reduce the number of empty trucks releasing pollutants into the atmosphere on roads across the country.
The project brings together a consortium of companies – Vodafone Digital Asset Broker, Microsoft, Yusen Logistics, Fuuse, and Parity Technologies.
It will see the development of a shared digital infrastructure for more intelligent management of vehicle slot filling, routing, and tracking to allow competing logistics providers to safely share information available truck space across their collective fleets, without the need for a single party needing full control or visibility of the whole system.
The project will run until September 2024.
The Logistics Living Lab project is part of Digital Catapult’s Digital Supply Chain Hub.
Yusen Logistics head of business change Leo Pickford, says: “Our customers, who are often operating on wafer thin margins, need to find ways to reduce costs and cut emissions. Given that 25% of trucks still run empty, while a significant amount of operational planning is done at the last minute, logistics optimisation, particularly in Shared User Transport (SUT), is a key area where operational efficiency can be realised.”
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