IPIC 2021 Topics

The Physical Internet

Improving freight transport and logistics efficiency and sustainability through an interconnected, interoperable and shared use of logistics networks has been a great opportunity. The Physical Internet concept aims to get freight flows and logistics services as accessible and connected as information and services are over internet in both global and last mile. Physical Internet aims at asset sharing and flow consolidation on a massive scale supporting the brutal challenge of freight transport and logistics decarbonization. The Physical Internet (PI, π) has opened a paradigm-breaking field encompassing the interconnectivity and interoperability of smart logistics networks, transportation systems, manufacturing systems and supply chains, enabling seamless open asset sharing and flow consolidation on a massive scale. It aims to transform the way physical objects are moved, deployed, realized, supplied, designed and used all around the world to improve by an order-of magnitude the overall performance in terms of economic, environmental and societal efficiency and sustainability.

Conference Topics

1. ALICE Physical Internet Roadmap Implementation and Generations. New Area for IPIC!

This conference builds on previous efforts of the Physical Internet Community and ALICE welcomes contributions regarding the 'Roadmap Towards the Physical Internet', addressing its different generations,  its implementations as well as applications or technologies supporting its implementations.

• From Logistics Nodes to PI Nodes 
• From Logistics Networks to Physical Internet Network 
• Developing the System of Logistics Networks towards the Physical Internet 
• Access and Adoption 
• Governance 

2. The topics you find in every IPIC are listed below. Some new too! 

• Interconnected freight transport, logistics and supply networks
• Modularization
• Material handling
• Vehicles and transshipment technologies 
• Last mile & City Logistics 
• Omnichannel & E-commerce logistics 
• Systems and technologies for interconnected Logistics (3D printing, IoT, machine learning, augmented reality, blockchain, cloud computing, digital twins, collaborative descision making) 
• New communication Networks enabling interconnected logistics 
• Business models for open & interconnected logistics 
• Manufacturing networks and the PI
• Ports and hubs in the PI 
• PI impacts
• PI Fundamentals and Constituents 
• PI Implementation and Governance 
• PI Modelling and Simulation 
• Autonomous logistics operations and systems (autonomous transport/drones/mobile logistics/robotics)
• Distibuted Intelligence in Physical Internet