On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet

Fahim, Patrick B.M.; Sotomayor, Manuel Martinez De Ubago Alvarez De; Rezaei, Jafar; Binsbergen, Arjan J van; Nijdam, Michiel; Tavasszy, Lóránt

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2021.102834

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“…For this phase, international collaboration bodies and models are necessary to assure free competition and transparency among actors. The physical internet may not be reached until 2040, and global governance of systems is essential to increase the pace of development and adoption of this concept, especially through ports [30]. Ref.…”

Section: From Pcs Toward Physical Internetmentioning

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Port Community Systems: Accelerating the Transition of Seaports toward the Physical Internet—The Portuguese Case

Caldeirinha

Nabais

Pinto

2022

JMSE

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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, namely transparency conditions and traceability. Seaports, connecting land and maritime transport, are special components of supply chains where multiple players interact with different perspectives, and conflicting goals may arise. Port community authorities invest in electronic platforms to foster communication and integration with the companies that interact with the seaport, guiding the digitization of the seaport business. In main European and world ports, the Port Community System (PCS) is the platform that supports the creation of a network composed of shipping agents, shippers, freight forwarders, transporters, terminals, logistics platforms, and public entities. PCS focuses on service level, partner networks, maritime services, freight services, logistical services, and advanced port services. These features have an impact on seaport operations, which affects supply chain performance. Digitization within the scope of the PCSs has fostered the development of horizontal collaboration between seaport community partners. The Physical Internet (PI) is an innovative concept that seeks new logistics solutions requiring integration and interoperability between partners in the supply chain, including maritime and land transport. This paper focuses on (i) the evolution guidelines of PCSs and (ii) on the PCS Business Factors that can drive the supply chain into a significant improvement in performance. A survey was sent to a sample of Portuguese supply chain experts regarding the causal relationship between PCS Business Factors and supply chain performance in the next 10 to 20 years. From the data collected, recent services evolving at PCS are promoting a mindset change aligned to the implementation of a Physical Internet. Establishing a Physical Internal in Portuguese seaports could take decades, but it will support the transition to a new phase of PCS, accelerating the transition from Isolated Supply Chains (I-SCs) to Open Supply Chains (O-SCs), thus improving supply chain performance.

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Section: From Pcs Toward Physical Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Port Community Systems: Accelerating the Transition of Seaports toward the Physical Internet—The Portuguese Case

Caldeirinha

Nabais

Pinto

2022

JMSE

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“…The PI fits into the development line as the broader future context for the global FTL system, where ports are a crucial part. In line with the key development lines of the PI, Fahim et al [2021a] constructed the PI Port Framework (PIPF) that visualizes the path from current ports into ports in a PI environment as follows (see Figure 2).…”

Section: Maritime Ports In the Pimentioning

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“…A. Scenarios With respect to scenarios, where Fahim et al [2021a] focused on institutional developments related to the governance of the PI, Fahim et al [2021d] also included technological developments, using a higher aggregate level in their analysis. Using contextual scenarios, Fahim et al [2021a] also constructed some development paths for ports, using the PIPF.…”

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“…Scenarios With respect to scenarios, where Fahim et al [2021a] focused on institutional developments related to the governance of the PI, Fahim et al [2021d] also included technological developments, using a higher aggregate level in their analysis. Using contextual scenarios, Fahim et al [2021a] also constructed some development paths for ports, using the PIPF. The development paths showed that, despite the PI's components stemming from technological innovation [Montreuil et al, 2013], the governance dimension, which includes collaboration, physical and digital asset sharing, new business models, legal and regulatory frameworks, and standardization, is most likely to become a bottleneck, and hence, the most critical in terms of development of the PI.…”

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The Physical Internet and Maritime Ports: Ready for the Future?

Fahim

Rezaei

Jayaraman

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IEEE Eng. Manag. Rev.

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The Physical Internet (PI) is a relatively young and compelling vision about the freight transport and logistics system of the future. Besides showing how many technological and organizational innovations could converge in a real-world logistics system, it also addresses cross-industry interests such as digitalization, standardization, resilience, and environmental sustainability. In the logistics R&D community, the PI is already inspiring new designs of loading and packaging material, architectures for collaboration, and open information exchange, as well as algorithms for system-wide optimization. Our focus is on the position and role of maritime ports within the PI, as the transport hubs that facilitate most of the world's international trade. We introduce the key notions of the PI vision and expand on the unique position of maritime ports in the PI with the respective challenges this may create. Finally, we discuss the requirements for maritime ports to be ready to take up their role in the PI. We found that policy directions for ports to contribute to the development and implementation of the PI lie within the areas of transport infrastructure, (PI) standardization, advanced terminal areas, ICT hardware, information systems (IS) and platforms, and sustainability management.

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“…The inadequacy of knowledge can range between complete certainty, a clear enough future (Level 1), alternate futures with probabilities (Level 2), a few plausible futures (Level 3), and Deep uncertainty in which there are many plausible futures (Level 4a) or unknown future (Level 4b) 12 .Previous studies have recognized some of the above challenges and suggested possible measures to enhance the visioning process in transport planning. For example, the inclusion of wild cards to stimulate creativity 10 , citizen involvement through a mapping exercise 13 , the implementation of a quantitative multi-actor and multicriteria analysis 14,15 , and the integration of the Delphi method and scenario planning into the visioning process 16 . However, these studies addressed uncertainties surrounding the visioning process and the implementation of the resulting visions at Levels 1 or 2 (i.e.…”

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Visioning future transport systems with an integrated robust and generative framework

Jittrapirom

Bekius

Führer

2023

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Visioning has been widely adopted in transport planning as a method to support explorations of possible future transport systems over a long time horizon. There are vast variations in how visioning is applied but given a clear association between visions and the long-time perspective, it is unclear how these processes handle uncertainty surrounding the resulting visions and their implementation. This study reflects on previous visioning processes by systematically reviewing the scientific publications on participatory visioning in passenger transport. The review identifies possible improvements contributing to a systematic approach that produces concrete visions and actions to deal with uncertainties surrounding the vision and its implementation. We address these improvements by proposing a robust and generative visioning framework, which combines the generative approach in Appreciative Inquiry (Ai) and methods to handle uncertainty in the Dynamic Adaptive Planning (DAP). The framework is illustrated in a case study of the Southwest area of the Dutch city of the Hague that involved over 50 participants in a survey and two workshops. The process produced a vision for the mobility system of the area, a set of measures to realize it (i.e. pathways), and concrete actions to ensure that the pathways are robust against different futures that can affect the implementation. The approach can help planners, policymakers, and researchers in designing a visioning process that helps participants to better appreciate the temporal dimension of the visioning process and improves their awareness regarding the need to safeguard policy interventions against possible impacts of (un)certain future events.

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On the evolution of maritime ports towards the Physical Internet

Cited by 14 publications

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Port Community Systems: Accelerating the Transition of Seaports toward the Physical Internet—The Portuguese Case

Port Community Systems: Accelerating the Transition of Seaports toward the Physical Internet—The Portuguese Case

The Physical Internet and Maritime Ports: Ready for the Future?

Visioning future transport systems with an integrated robust and generative framework

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