HEGEL – Hypernetwork of German LogisticsResearch

Although the global transport volume is steadily increasing and international transports are often carried out across several networks or even intermodally, there is still a lack of transparency in the supply market for transports. This is not only the case within the transport sectors, but especially with regard to the linkages of transport options on road, rail or inland waterways. There is a lack of a sound data basis and modelling methodology for a representation of these hyper-networks.

Project objective

In order to enable significant progress in the modelling and representation of hypernetworks in the logistics industry, various methods are combined. Modelling, simulation, surveys or even experiments are used, among others. New data sources are used (see e.g. mCLOUD), which are supplemented by modelling approaches as well as empirical surveys. The benefit of the representation of the hypernetworks is to be demonstrated for existing and for innovative services to be developed in the logistics sector, which is strongly characterised by small and micro providers.

Implementation

Based on the conception for the recording and representation of logistical hypernetworks, relevant, existing data sources are identified and systematically collected. Data gaps are closed by models and surveys. The benefits of supply transparency will be evaluated in various application studies using historical data from different transport networks. New services for the logistics industry will be designed and prototypically implemented on the basis of these hypernetworks.

More information can be found on the page of the BMVI, the German Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport.