Project STAFFEL

In road freight transport, shipments are interrupted to comply with driving and rest times. These interruptions not only extend the transport time. They also occupy truck parking spaces, of which there is a shortage of around 35,000 on german highways according to BASt and BGL. The search for parking spaces leads to CO2-intensive parking search traffic, driving time overruns and frustration among truck drivers. Wildly parked trucks cause accidents, inconvenience residents and, according to VEDA, encourage cargo robberies with damages in the billions.

The interruption of transports can be avoided by securing trailers with an IoT lock at the end of the driving time and then handing them over to rested drivers. In the project, a safe, cross-carrier “relay traffic” is to be researched: on an Internet platform, long distances are to be broken down into partial routes with the help of AI algorithms, which are then mediated between carriers and freight forwarders via a driving time marketplace on the basis of real-time data (e.g. traffic, infrastructure, IoT, telematics).

The following steps are planned to achieve the goal:

• Concept (sustainability, business model, legal, security).
• Platform (driving time marketplace, AI algorithm, UX/UI).
• Smart backup system (IoT system for trailer handover).
• Integration of traffic, telematics, TMS and IoT data.
• Big Data processing and provision of refined data (mCloud)
• Creation of standardization documents (e.g. DIN SPEC, CWA)
• Pilot validation based on a regional driving time marketplace and long haul traffic