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Innovation has historically played a vital role in increasing efficiency. However, while other industry sectors have experienced rapid growth of productivity, the transport logistics industry has seen relatively small improvement in terms of efficiency. The European LOGINN project undertakes several activities aiming at fostering collaboration among the involved stakeholders of the logistics domain regarding the promotion of innovative transport logistics solutions. The LOGINN approach for supporting logistics innovation achievement involves three interlinked and mutually reinforcing dimensions: innovative business models within the supply chain, innovative logistics best practices, and innovative technologies. In this work, we describe a methodology for innovative best practices identification and we present a selection of best practices identified from the LOGINN project in the areas of e-freight, co-modality, urban freight distribution, and intralogistics.
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The production of this paper has been made possible thanks to financial support provided by the European the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme through the Coordination Action LOGINN (FP7 SST-314338). We would like to extend our thanks to the other integrating companies of the LOGINN Project (Insiel, CERTH/HIT, BIBA, SingularLogic, SFC, ISL, Chalmers University, SINTEF, TREDIT, ECM, and WSP) for their collaboration and contribution.
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Ciprés, D., Polo, L., Capella, A. (2016). Innovation in Transport Logistics—Best Practices from the EU Project LOGINN. In: Kotzab, H., Pannek, J., Thoben, KD. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23512-7_58
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