ICT in multimodal transport and technological trends: unleashing potential for the future
By Irina Harris, Yingli Wang, Haiyang Wang. 2015
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The role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in freight transport as key enabler is well recognised. However the uptake of recent ICT advances for multimodal freight transport provisions in the UK and Europe has been slow. The aim of our paper is to explore the potential reasons for such a slow adoption and assess how recent technological advances such as cloud computing and Internet of Things might have changed the landscape and thus help to overcome these barriers. Via an extensive review of 33 EU framework programme projects, we are able to consolidate and present current major efforts in ICT developments in the freight multimodal transport setting at European level. We further discuss barriers inhibiting quick take-up of ICT applications in multimodal transport. Resolutions were then explored by reviewing four key ICT development trends recently emerging and evaluating their potential impact in reducing such barriers for deployment. Our contribution is two-fold: it advances current knowledge by presenting an up-to-date overview of existing and emerging ICT applications in the field of multimodal transport and barriers to e-enabled multimodal transport. It also captures some of the best practices in industry and aims to provoke a debate among practitioners and academics via the analysis of how innovative use of recent technological developments could potentially lower the barriers to multimodal ICT adoption and lead to a more integrated freight transport network. Therefore it lays the foundation for further research.
Subfields: Building and Construction, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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- Internet of things and supply chain management: a literature review (2019, background): “…Dada and Thiesse (2008), Bowman et al. (2009), Ferreira, Martinho, and Domingos (2010), Sund, Foss, and Bakas (2011), Giannakourou and Taoukis (2003), Harris, Wang, and Wang (2015), Pang et al. (2015), included shelf life prediction, sales premium, precision agriculture and reduction of…”
- Understanding blockchain technology for future supply chains: a systematic literature review and research agenda (2019, background): “Centralized platforms are the main transaction paradigm (Harris et al., 2015), but there are certain limitations when dealing with a large volume of fast-paced transactions (Casey and Wong, 2017).”
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- The dual effects of the Internet of Things (IoT): A systematic review of the benefits and risks of IoT adoption by organizations (2020, background): “As such, the duality of IoT suggests that organizations need to position themselves carefully within this arena (Harris et al., 2015; Stephan et al., 2013; Yazici, 2014) and should consider the role they play in enabling IoT development.”