Executive Summary

The overall vision off SELIS is to enable accelerated digitisation of the logistics sector by making shared logistics intelligent information spaces as a service readily available to each and every logistics community in Europe. SELIS aims to achieve this through the implementation of a digital B2B and B2A services network which consists of ‘shared logistics intelligent information spaces’. This network will support connecting and sharing resources intra- and cross- communities, enabling logistics communities to adopt innovative business models and to participate in a green, agile and collaborative European logistics and transportation system.

This deliverable presents the findings of work in Task 1.1 of the project on analyzing the needs of stakeholders and the ambitions of the innovation agenda. The analysis is performed in the context of a number of high-level strategic goals for green European logistics (the ‘European Green Logistics Strategies’ – EGLS). At the same time, the analysis aligns with the specific needs of stakeholders in the SELIS ‘Living Labs’. One role of this document is therefore to demonstrate the mapping between the SELIS innovation agenda, and the combination of real stakeholder requirements in the Living Labs and higher-level strategic goals, in order to show how the project innovation ambitions are derived from the needs of stakeholders in different communities and supply chains, and how wider impact and benefits are expected to be realised from the technical and business innovations. To provide a baseline against which innovation can be measured, the task has undertaken an analysis of the current state of the art in the relevant strategic areas, based on work that has been undertaken or is on-going in other projects and initiatives.