The ICONET project aims to answer some of the most important PI network design questions, both from a research angle as well as from running pilot studies. It is addressing questions such as how the business model of the PI itself and all necessary players in the network should look like, which information technology developments…

ICONET is now in the second half of the project and is making good progress. The Partners have been presenting at many events to share the project vision and outputs so far including H2020 RTR19 on December 4th, Intermodal Europe in Hamburg on November 5th to 7th and the ICONET Workshop in Antwerp on December…

At the two-day meeting held in Brussels in late September, hosted by Marc Verelst at Procter & Gamble, the ICONET team discussed the progress made to date, and plans for the coming months. Makis Kouloumbis, ICONET’s project manager, summarised the timeline and schedule ahead of the mid-term review in March 2020, and David Ciprés of…

The physical internet aims to transform how freight is moved, stored, supplied and used, supporting a more sustainable and efficient system of global logistics. Over three days at Church House, in Westminster, London, presenters and attendees discussed the wide range of technical, organisational, policy and business enabling solutions and strategies that will be required to…

New ICT infrastructure and reference architecture to support Operations in future PI Logistics NETworks (ICONET) project started officially on the 1st of September 2018. ICONET is a 30 month project and will significantly extend the state of the art research and development around the Physical Internet (PI) concept in pursuit of a new networked architecture…