ICT in multimodal transport and technological trends: unleashing potential for the future

Harris, Irina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0622-5123, Wang, Yingli ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-9558 and Wang, Haiyang ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-9558 2015. ICT in multimodal transport and technological trends: unleashing potential for the future. International Journal of Production Economics 159 , pp. 88-103. 10.1016/j.ijpe.2014.09.005

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Additional Information:	This is an open access article under the terms of the CC-BY license.
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0925-5273
Funders:	EPSRC
Related URLs:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Date of Acceptance:	3 September 2014
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 18:48
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/64474

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