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AEOLIX - the future European

Logistics information exchange federative platform for logistics services-towards the blockchain

technology?

Transporteffektivitetsdagen 2017 Transport Efficiency Day 2017

24 August 2017

Eusebiu Catana ERTICO - ITS EUROPE

Content

• Background & needs

• AEOLIX project

• European Logistics Information exchange Innovation Platform

• Towards blockchain technology?

• Conclusions

Background • Many digital platforms on freight transport and logistics:

– EC FP & H2020 Projects solutions

– Port Community systems & Cargo Community System (CCS)

– e-Customs platforms

– Single Window platforms

– Proprietary ICT /ITS Solutions

• Open standards and EU initiatives

– UBL/XML, EDIFACT, GS1, Open Data Standards, DATEX II

– ITS Directive, RIS, eMaritime

– (ETPs), such as ALICE, ERTRAC, ERRAC, Waterborne

Digitalisation in Logistics

4

Enhanced supply chain visibility

More efficiency and better resilience

Fewer costs, less administrative burden

New business opportunities

Optimised choice of transport services

Better transport and event management

Increased load factors Fewer CO2 emissions

Business Needs

5

Management Needs

• Process control, customs clearance

• Capacity planning, scheduling

Data needs

• Vessel Load

• Berthing schedule. Load plan, ETA, container location, customs clearance status

Interface level needed

• Data availability, visibility

• Document transfer Needs at Hubs Ports, Terminal

Management Needs

• End to end visibility and exception management

• Vertical cooperation and mode conversion

Data needs

• Load size, and format, origin, destination, asset availability, capacity availability, schedule, voyage reports, travel authorisation, shipment location, shipment status


• Data availability, visibility

• Document transfer

• Online-booking links, confirmation

• Intelligent agent, exception alerts

Visibility Needs at Supply chain

Management Needs

• Load factor, capacity optimisation

• Horizontal collaborations

Data needs

• Combined demand

• Combined loads, combined locations,

• combined destinations

• Corridors

• Combined lanes, schedules


• Lane analysis

• Optimisation algorithms

• Cost analysis

Network Optimisation

needs

But new challenges appear…

Lack of interconnected systems Process digitalisation and re-engineering

Data challenges:

i. Data ownership, sharing, access to data, re-use of

data

ii. Lack of trust/data confidentiality

iii. Data protection, cybersecurity

iv. Big data, added value creation

Non-interoperable standards

Non-recognition of e-Transport documents New business models

Governance Low cost solutions, accessibility for SMEs

The AEOLIX Platform represents a critical way forward of supply chain interoperability through decentralised information sharing. AEOLIX is established via cloud services where data, application, on-premises and cloud-based processes and services from multiple actors can be connected - enhancing collaboration and interoperability, potentially across the entire freight transportation system

Thorough insight into lessons learned, needs and requirements

Architecture for a collaborative IT infrastructure for operational connection of logistics information systems

Appropriate data access management model

Common but user-tailored interface and tools to enable the IT infrastructure

Testing, validation and implementation of the AEOLIX concept

Acquisition of the real impacts of AEOLIX by at least 30% compared to the current situation.

Creation of awareness of AEOLIX, and prepare its Europe-wide deployment

AEOLIX Objectives

High-level architecture view

Main Features

• Ensure systems’ connectivity: a shared cloud-based connectivity layer message queueing framework, enabling messaging between various entities that wish to communicate with each other seamlessly and reliably

• Interoperability services to develop the data transformation before data pass to the connectivity layer

• Governance services in charge of the management of the data sharing rules between partners. Services that enables the visibility of information between stakeholders and/or services.

• SDK/API: develop/integrate SW solutions or services

• Identitiy management: management of digital entities of the actors/systems and access to the services

Connectivity Engine

AEOLIX IT Architecture

AEOLIX IT Architecture – How It works?

• AEOLIX platform – Ensure connectivity of systems >> AEOLIX Connectivity Engine: a shared

cloud-based connectivity layer message queuing framework, enabling messaging between various entities that wish to communicate with each other seamlessly and reliably

– Interoperability >> repository of types – SDK/API >> develop/integrate SW solutions or services

• AEOLIX Toolkit – AEOLIX toolkit is comprised of 3rd party services that will provide solutions that manage or improve specific logistics

processes. – Tookit is available to all users in the platform aiming to use it. – Some services identified in proposal + LLs

• AEOLIX secure cloud storage • AEOLIX eDocumentation E-CMR • AEOLIX geographical toolkit, map and data • AEOLIX routing toolkit, • AEOLIX planning toolkit, planning services for road and intermodal service • AEOLIX ETA toolkit


• AEOLIX Dashboard – Front of the AEOLIX Platform, SW tool to actors enriching their supply chain

visibility • In case actors has no system/tool, entry tool to the digital ecosystem

– Allow logistics stakeholders to share/collect data from the platform based on defined permissions

– Dashboard can be enriched with AEOLIX Toolkit / 3rd party services


•Thessaloniki-Balkans & central Europe via rail/road

•Gothenburg-Hamburg, Bratislava load control centre, Trieste to three TEN-T corridors (Scandinavian-Mediterranean, Mediterranean, Baltic-Adriatic)

•Urban Bordeaux & Atlantic Corridor

•UK - Continental EU - China logistics

•Bucharest-Vienna: Inland waterway

Multi/syncromodal Transport

• Sea ports: Hamburg, Gothenburg, Bordeaux, Trieste

•Railway hubs: Hamburg ,Trieste Northamptonshire

• Inland waterway (barge) terminals: Bucharest Vienna

•Cities: Bordeaux, Gothenburg

•Virtual freight centres: Thessaloniki Industrial Area

Intelligent Hubs

•The whole logistics network, incl. ports, inland transport (road, train, barge) in The Netherlands, Germany and Spain

•All sites that will cover multi/ synchromodal transport

Network Optimisation

AEOLIX Living Labs

Port – Scenario 1: reduce lost business and waiting time for the train due delays of ocean carrier

Connectivity

Interoperability Data transformation, Port type repository,

Governance Port collaboration Scenario 1 – data exchange rules

Ocean Carrier System

Data feed

Port Terminal System

Port Train Dashboard Port FF Dashboard

Vessel Schedule

Vessel ETA Container Av Sch

Container Av Sch Update

VS

VS

VS VS

Example – Mapping LLx to AEOLIX

Connectivity




Data feed



Vessel Schedule



SDK

CS VS

VS VS

CS CS

Example – Mapping LLx to AEOLIX Port – Scenario 1: reduce lost business and waiting time for the train due delays of ocean carrier

Connectivity




Data feed



Vessel Schedule



ETA

VS

VS VS

ETA ETA

ETA

CS CS


Connectivity




Data feed


Toolkit Services - ETA Service


Vessel Schedule



GPS VS

VS VS

ETA ETA

ETA

ETA

CS CS


Connectivity


Governance Port collabotation Scenario 1 – data exchange rules


Data feed


Toolkit Services - ETA Service


Vessel Schedule Vessel ETA

Container Av Sch


GPS

VS

VS VS

ETA ETA

ETA

ETA

CS CS

CU

CU CU


A community (or commercial) system can be used to distribute data and address various challenges like • Many stakeholders – one point of entry • Many stakeholders need to share the same

data – data distribution, data re-use • Different implementation guides of open

standards of various stakeholders – data transformations

Data quality • Duplication of data to many stakeholders –

errors due to process changes and (no) propagation

• Status changes are shared too late (e.g. discharge data available after vessel departure) – delays in

• the process, increased lead times Internet is a « network » of networks, not a network of computers • The integration of the heterogeneous networks

is ensured by a suite of precise protocols • inside, each network does what it wants • but data exchanged between networks must

conform (using gateways) to the Internet protocols defined in the TCP/IP Reference Model

API Registry with supporting Smart Contracts • Based on business services for transactions • Supporting process synchronisation • QoS of infrastructure combined with resilience

APIs Front-end applications distributed via Appstores Gateways to back office systems • ontology matching for data transformation API

integration Requires conceptual standards • From business services to (existing) open

standards/ontologies • Interaction choreography for transaction

support (rules) • Requirements to event ledger storage (trust

and non-repudiation of the store) • trusted environment for (un)permissioned data

sharing • (near) real time share state information • supports functional requirements for

hyperconnectivity, but is not yet mature enough for large scale application by a large number of (autonomous) objects, individuals, and organizations.

Current situation Future

Application layer

Transport layer

Network layer

Link layer

Physical layer

Physical Internet-Layering and data

Custom layer

Shipment layer

Logistic network layer

Corridor/ transport layer

Physical infrastructure layer

Supply, demand, and replenishment of products with a Quality of Service (QoS) requirement

End-to-end shipment of cargo over the logistics network

Dynamical routing of packages over a logistics network of hubs and corridors between those hubs

Multi modal transport along corridors between hubs utilizing an underlying QoS (Autonomous operation)

Phsyical infrastructure (road, rail, inland waterways, sea, air, pipeline) and hubs with a particular QoS based on maintenance and incidents, closing hours, etc.

Data requirements

Booking & Ordering services

Visibility services

Dynamic planning

Resilience Agility

Process synchronisation

Why blockchain technology? Interoperability:

Data stored in a blockchain Data (event ledger) is distributed to all stakeholders (or cloud storage service providers) Smart Contracts/Chain code - operations and data semantics

Permission’ is the core of the solution: Chain code (compiled smart contracts) defines the behaviour of a role Any type of data can be stored in the blockchain Orders, payments, status, delays Current and future status Data manipulation (view and update) Semantics of data

Permissions to access data are shared: Orders – there is a transactional relation Actively grant permission (Event (arrival, Vessel))

Transactional relations reflect trust and reputation (‘good’ behaviour) Adding sensors (IoT) introduces an extra validation (‘a container can only be at one location at a time’) Register and connect once via the chain code to the blockchain The Hyperledger Ordening service and channels potentially supports this approach

Challenges: technical, security, new use cases, new business models

Conclusions

Innovate:

Interoperability

Interfaces with any logistics

information systems

Support continued

development of standardized

formats

Technical

Distributed open system

through configurable plugin APIs.

Demand driven from users rather than supply

driven

Legal

Data access, privacy,

identification, authentication

Secure, Resilient and

Trusted environment procedures

Business

Enable low-complexity

and low-cost connectivity

Business models and

public-private

governance

Communities

Open to all stakeholders

across modes, within and

across related supply chains.

Towards an EU Single European Transport Area

AEOLIX on the “Europe in My Region” map for H2020 projects

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Thank you for your attention!

For further information please contact: Eusebiu Catana, PhD.Eng.

AEOLIX PM ERTICO – ITS EUROPE

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