Print Email Facebook Twitter The Physical Internet and Maritime Ports Title The Physical Internet and Maritime Ports: Ready for the Future? Author Fahim, P.B.M. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Rezaei, J. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Jayaraman, Raja (Khalifa University of Science and Technology) Poulin, Marc (Abu Dhabi School of Management) Montreuil, Benoit (Georgia Institute of Technology) Tavasszy, Lorant (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Date 2021 Abstract 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. Subject Freight transportlogisticsmaritimePhysical Internet (PI)ports To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3a338dda-cf4a-4d0b-a5d0-122aad47a110 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2021.3113932 Embargo date 2022-03-27 ISSN 0360-8581 Source IEEE Engineering Management Review, 49 (4), 136-149 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 P.B.M. Fahim, J. Rezaei, Raja Jayaraman, Marc Poulin, Benoit Montreuil, Lorant Tavasszy Files PDF The_Physical_Internet_and ... Future.pdf 3.01 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3a338dda-cf4a-4d0b-a5d0-122aad47a110/datastream/OBJ/view