In the realm of Production, Logistics and Transport, the advent of digitalization presents remarkable opportunities for enhancing efficiency, visibility, and sustainability. However, with these opportunities come complex challenges across the transportation chain.
The focus of the conference is therefore on (but not limited to) the following interdisciplinary topics:
- Networked, intermodal transport and logistics
- Smart city and mobility
- Industry 4.0 and autonomous value chains
- Freight automation
- Future intralogistics and warehousing
- Data and information technology
- Transport policy and governance principles
- Predictive analytics and demand modelling
Each contribution should address one or more of the following trends or key aspects currently affecting the fields of Production, Logistics and Traffic:
- Challenges regarding the supply of rural and urbanareas
- Consideration of geopolitical, spatial, environmental, or health impacts
- Incorporate human and ethical factors
- Enhancement of social or ecological sustainability
- Influences of automatization and standardization
- Digitalization, Integration of data and IT-Systems
- Benefits of predictive analytics and Big Data
- Innovation in technology and processes
- Mitigation of risks and uncertainty
- Balancing robustness and flexibility
- Design of new measures, instruments and strategies
- Enablement of lean processes and structures
- Integration of different modelling approaches
- Handling of ecological or environmental disasters
- Improve decision making and decision support