Clean, efficient and competitive transport is a collaborative effort
The transition to sustainable and resilient logistics requires innovation. This involves collaboration and human effort just as much as it does technology and smart systems.
At the Multimodal Transport Expo held on Thursday 12 March in Breda, innovation, collaboration and forward-thinking came together on the exhibition floor, in workshop rooms and at the Top Sector Logistics stand. Frans Cruijssen and Tharsis Teoh presented the Compose 3.0 project, which explored the role of human decision-making in the transition to sustainable, clean transport. It appears that understanding psychological biases and phenomena is crucial for successful and sustainable transport innovations. This project culminated in a proper book, which was ceremoniously presented to Liesbeth Brugemann for this project from the TKI Dinalog portfolio.
The book outlines three key strategies for reducing CO₂ emissions in the logistics sector:
Technological and operational solutions, such as cleaner vehicles, smarter packaging and more efficient logistics networks.
The human factor: issues such as trust, honesty and social identity play a key role in successful collaboration and the transition to more sustainable transport.
Practical decision-making tools, such as the Transport Negotiation Game and the Transport Transition Game. These tools help companies to better understand decision-making processes relating to collaboration and sustainability and to practise them in real-world scenarios.
