Periodic Reporting for period 1 - KEYSTONE (KNOWLEDGEABLE COMPREHENSIVE AND FULLY INTEGRATED SMART SOLUTION FOR RESILIENT, SUSTAINABLE AND OPTIMIZED TRANSPORT OPERATIONS)
Período documentado: 2023-06-01 hasta 2024-11-30
The KEYSTONE project aims to revolutionize goods transport by establishing a sustainable, efficient, and safe system through innovative digital solutions. By fostering collaboration between enforcement authorities and logistics operators, it seeks to create a harmonized, interoperable framework for transport operations across Europe. Key objectives include:
- Enhancing Safety Standards: Improving transport safety through seamless, intermodal information exchange for real-time compliance monitoring, fostering a safer system.
- Encouraging Stakeholder Collaboration: Promoting integration among logistics stakeholders to align efforts across the ecosystem.
- Reducing Costs Through Interoperable Solutions: Facilitating data sharing and standardization to reduce compliance and logistics costs, contributing to sustainability and efficiency.
- Promoting European-Level Replication: Ensuring that KEYSTONE’s solutions are scalable and adaptable across Europe by addressing regional requirements.
- Developing a Standardised API and Plug-and-Play Design: Creating a federated platform with a standardised API for seamless integration and interoperability across logistics systems.
- Designing and Validating a Web App Through Pilots: Validating the project’s solutions via two pilot projects to demonstrate improvements in logistics efficiency, safety, and sustainability.
- Integrating Existing Research and Collaborating with Other Initiatives: Leveraging existing research and collaborating with projects like SETO and the eFTI working group.
- Enhancing Safety Standards: Improving transport safety through seamless, intermodal information exchange for real-time compliance monitoring, fostering a safer system.
- Encouraging Stakeholder Collaboration: Promoting integration among logistics stakeholders to align efforts across the ecosystem.
- Reducing Costs Through Interoperable Solutions: Facilitating data sharing and standardization to reduce compliance and logistics costs, contributing to sustainability and efficiency.
- Promoting European-Level Replication: Ensuring that KEYSTONE’s solutions are scalable and adaptable across Europe by addressing regional requirements.
- Developing a Standardised API and Plug-and-Play Design: Creating a federated platform with a standardised API for seamless integration and interoperability across logistics systems.
- Designing and Validating a Web App Through Pilots: Validating the project’s solutions via two pilot projects to demonstrate improvements in logistics efficiency, safety, and sustainability.
- Integrating Existing Research and Collaborating with Other Initiatives: Leveraging existing research and collaborating with projects like SETO and the eFTI working group.
At Project Month 18 of 36, the main achievements focus on gathering and validating requirements for the API standard and web application, as well as piloting activities. These include:
- General Assembly Meetings: Four meetings in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Greece, where the consortium consulted stakeholders in discussion groups to resolve barriers and advance Work Packages.
- Communication and Dissemination via four digital channels, 14 events, and two conference paper publications.
- Identification and Refinement of Requirements for the API standard and web application from legal, regulatory, economic, digital, cybersecurity, ethical, and technical perspectives, involving high-level stakeholders from enforcement authorities, logistics operators, and terminal operators.
- API Model Establishment: Collaboration with EU working groups, specialists, technical experts, and previous EU projects through consultations, workshops, focus groups, and interviews.
- Web App Architecture and Design: The app architecture aligns with the API standard and is being prepared for validation through piloting with two real-world use cases involving enforcement authorities and operators.
- General Assembly Meetings: Four meetings in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Greece, where the consortium consulted stakeholders in discussion groups to resolve barriers and advance Work Packages.
- Communication and Dissemination via four digital channels, 14 events, and two conference paper publications.
- Identification and Refinement of Requirements for the API standard and web application from legal, regulatory, economic, digital, cybersecurity, ethical, and technical perspectives, involving high-level stakeholders from enforcement authorities, logistics operators, and terminal operators.
- API Model Establishment: Collaboration with EU working groups, specialists, technical experts, and previous EU projects through consultations, workshops, focus groups, and interviews.
- Web App Architecture and Design: The app architecture aligns with the API standard and is being prepared for validation through piloting with two real-world use cases involving enforcement authorities and operators.
At the core of the KEYSTONE project is the adoption of the API standard reference model and web application. To ensure success, stakeholders have identified the following needs for wider uptake:
- Fragmented Regulatory Environment: Stakeholders stress the need to address fragmented rules around electronic documents, as current frameworks hinder data exchange between enforcement authorities and businesses, reducing efficiency.
- eFTI's Role in Standardization: The eFTI framework aims to standardize data models for smoother exchanges, but businesses are not required to adopt digital documents, which may perpetuate reliance on paper.
- Pilot Projects' Importance: Stakeholders call for more pilot projects to gather insights and refine regulations. Governments and EU bodies should use these findings to foster innovation and adapt regulations.
- Government as Enabler: National governments are key to driving digital transformation, harmonizing standards, reducing bureaucracy, and incentivizing digital adoption. Regulations must address interoperability, security, and align with EU policy goals.
- European Mobility Data Space: Support exists for creating a standardized European mobility data space to encourage collaboration and protect SMEs.
- Government Support for Standardization: Governments must promote data spaces and improve digital literacy among logistics professionals, SMEs, and truck drivers.
Additional technological requirements include:
a) Standardization: KEYSTONE emphasizes enhancing standardization in transport, technology, and regulations, focusing on incentivizing digital documentation adoption, particularly for SMEs.
b) Bottom-up Connectivity: KEYSTONE aims to connect digital islands for seamless interoperability while maintaining trust with strong data protection.
c) Mobile and Web Applications: Stakeholders support mobile- and web-based apps to integrate tracking technologies and data management tools, ensuring flexibility and scalability.
d) Dashboard Monitoring and Data Capture: Key data points should be monitored through a dashboard to track shipments and ensure compliance.
e) Simplified Access and Integration: Proposed solutions include a user-friendly IT platform for operators to scan and submit documents via optical character recognition, seamlessly integrating with existing systems.
Addressing these needs, the KEYSTONE API standard and web application could revolutionize freight management, automating border control, improving enforcement officer work quality, and enhancing freight professionals’ work-life balance. Most importantly, it could eliminate barriers between institutions, companies, and authorities, fostering collaboration over competition.
- Fragmented Regulatory Environment: Stakeholders stress the need to address fragmented rules around electronic documents, as current frameworks hinder data exchange between enforcement authorities and businesses, reducing efficiency.
- eFTI's Role in Standardization: The eFTI framework aims to standardize data models for smoother exchanges, but businesses are not required to adopt digital documents, which may perpetuate reliance on paper.
- Pilot Projects' Importance: Stakeholders call for more pilot projects to gather insights and refine regulations. Governments and EU bodies should use these findings to foster innovation and adapt regulations.
- Government as Enabler: National governments are key to driving digital transformation, harmonizing standards, reducing bureaucracy, and incentivizing digital adoption. Regulations must address interoperability, security, and align with EU policy goals.
- European Mobility Data Space: Support exists for creating a standardized European mobility data space to encourage collaboration and protect SMEs.
- Government Support for Standardization: Governments must promote data spaces and improve digital literacy among logistics professionals, SMEs, and truck drivers.
Additional technological requirements include:
a) Standardization: KEYSTONE emphasizes enhancing standardization in transport, technology, and regulations, focusing on incentivizing digital documentation adoption, particularly for SMEs.
b) Bottom-up Connectivity: KEYSTONE aims to connect digital islands for seamless interoperability while maintaining trust with strong data protection.
c) Mobile and Web Applications: Stakeholders support mobile- and web-based apps to integrate tracking technologies and data management tools, ensuring flexibility and scalability.
d) Dashboard Monitoring and Data Capture: Key data points should be monitored through a dashboard to track shipments and ensure compliance.
e) Simplified Access and Integration: Proposed solutions include a user-friendly IT platform for operators to scan and submit documents via optical character recognition, seamlessly integrating with existing systems.
Addressing these needs, the KEYSTONE API standard and web application could revolutionize freight management, automating border control, improving enforcement officer work quality, and enhancing freight professionals’ work-life balance. Most importantly, it could eliminate barriers between institutions, companies, and authorities, fostering collaboration over competition.