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SUMMARY
Future Internet (FI) technology offers unique opportunities for the transport and logistics industry to address pressing challenges associated with international freight transport, including business efficiency, competitiveness and environmental sustainability.
To address those challenges, FInest (an EU FP7 Future Internet PPP use case project) leverages FI technology to the benefit of all transport and logistics partners. It offers novel Web 2.0 business-to-business collaboration facilities which seamlessly link third-party and legacy applications to create customized solutions, allowing for the “on demand” management of shipments and supply chains. Through software prototypes, FInest aims to contribute to the development of a rich service ecosystem whose value also extends to other domains such as smart cities and agriculture.
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SOLUTIONS
- Designing a future-Internet-enabled, standardised business-to-business collaboration platform, which builds on generic FI enablers
- Developing four core transport and logistics services offered through open-source APIs : (1) collaboration services, (2) semi-automated e-contracting services, (3) intelligent and proactive “sense and respond” event management services, (4) real-time planning and re-planning services.
- Running large-scale trials of the FInest solutions in Europe’s leading edge experimental facilities
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LINK: http://www.finest-ppp.eu/
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