During the first half of the ADMIRAL project, the consortium collaborated defining the initial concept of the ADMIRAL marketplace. This includes building a coherent understanding of the complex multi-stakeholder operating environment by using internal and external questionnaires, interviews and workshops supported by literature studies. Therefore, we have:
- Set up a stakeholder collaborative forum to engage project external participants to support ADMIRAL marketplace definition and validation. The project has also collaborated with Smart Freight Center (SFC) to gain a better understanding of the emission calculation (GLEC framework).
- Studied collaboration models (horizontal, vertical), barriers and drivers for logistics collaboration as well as started to define the ADMIRAL partners’ current and desired business models.
- Implemented an internal version of the developer and business portal including a discussion forum. Marketplace UI, functionalities, and service fulfilment tools development has started including API definition together with ADMIRAL SW developer companies and pilots.
- Engaged several stakeholders to discuss and gain feedback on the ADMIRAL marketplace concept to validate the concept and ensure its applicability to the operating environment and regulatory compliance.
The main results achieved while the project is at midterm can be summarised as follows:
- Scientific impact: 2 scientific journal publications, 1 doctoral thesis and 3 conference papers published during M1-M18 in addition to several public and sensitive deliverables.
- Technological impact: enhancements to existing solutions are being prepared based on rigorous background studies supported by the results from the Hackathon event.
- Social impact: active collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders (e.g. Stakeholder collaborative forum, workshops, interviews etc.) in various EU countries to support changing the fossil fuel dominant practices and mindsets.
- Plans for exploiting and disseminating results: the novel results gained are further utilised in pilots and marketplace development as well as enhancing research for supply chain decarbonization and studies on logistics platform.
