Increasing urbanization has turned transporting freight from, to, and within urban areas into
a major challenge. Freight transportation represents a lifeline for urban retail and industry …

To achieve socio-economic and environmental sustainability, utilization of existing
capacities and assets has become a key challenge for the transportation sector. This …

Purpose The Physical Internet (PI) is an emerging concept that applies the Digital Internet as
a design metaphor for the development of sustainable, interoperable and collaborative …

In the freight transport sector, competing companies horizontally collaborate through
establishing Collaborative Transport Networks (CTNs). Fruitful implementation of CTNs will …

The vision of the Physical Internet (PI) involves both sharing logistics resources and
information exchange within an open network. The implementation of PI is seen as a …

Logistics research has been emphasising the importance of interconnectivity for better
resource utilisation and real-time response against disruptions. However, lack of trust has …

Supply chains are complex systems that have grown in dimension and spread worldwide. In
supply chains, physical and information flows have strict service quality requirements …

The wine industry faces a highly competitive environment, making cost-effective
management of the wine supply chain essential. Literature has shown that this objective can …

Purpose The Physical Internet (PI) provides solutions to improve the current unsustainable
economically logistics systems. This paper aims to identify the key themes and point out the …

The Physical Internet (PI) is a modularization of logistics services: standardized protocols,
full interoperability and standardized packaging, PI‐containers, and encapsulated freight …