This report summarises the work done in work package 5 of WISDOM, the Bremen/Hamburg Pilot. It describes the details of the implemented scenario, splitted up into three parts named "Operation Control", "Order Control" and "Equipment Control". The general goal is to establish communication along the land-side container transport chain. The work group "Operation Control" works on the data sharing between truck operator (represented by EKB) and terminal operator (represented by BLG) with support from port community systems (dbh, DAKOSY). "Order Control" works on data sharing between freight forwarder (represented by K&N) and/or shipping line (represented by CanMar) on the one side and truck operator (represented by EKB) on the other side, possibly with involvement of a port community system (dbh, DAKOSY). "Equipment Control" is focused on how a truck operator (represented by EKB) can get a better overview over his equipment (especially chassis's) using tracking & tracing techniques (supplied by OHB).
The status of the work is most advanced in "Operation Control": a working implementation will be available at the end of August 1997. The implementation will go into regular service after the end of the Bremen/Hamburg pilot. In "Order Control" the message structures have been fixed and appropriate EDIFACT formats are found, the implementation still has to be done by the partners after the end of WISDOM as a commercial project. Preparations for implementation at K&N and EKB have been made. In "Equipment Control" a test phase involving 3 chassis's in a stand-alone solution has started in February 1997. The integration of all message structures into a generic data model has been done; the preparation on a technical level for the set-up of communication between in-house software and Tracking & Tracing station have started.
All three work groups are moderated by HVA and ISL, implementation work is done by the parties mentioned above, assisted by LS and OHB.
The WISDOM pilots are used in a bottom-up approach in order to establish working examples of communication along the intermodal transport chain. The results from the pilots will be used to fill up the general framework of communication with details from real-life experience. This way both research needs for a better model of communication along intermodal transport chains and user needs for direct improvement in their everyday business are catered for. The Bremen / Hamburg pilot focuses on the road transport of containers and their delivery at a sea terminal as one example for intermodal transport. As this is one of the (in terms of electronic communication) more advanced business areas in intermodal transport, improvements found here will apply as well in other scenarios; at the same time there is no risk of solving again already solved problems nor of using out-dated technology. Although the WISDOM pilots are developed in an environment with relatively large transport companies in the bigger container ports, all participants are convinced of the need that the system should be open to all kinds of transport operators and related services, independent of size. The term "large transport companies" is not a contradiction to the goal of including SMEs though, as the trucker involved (EKB) is not a big (from the financial point of view and in numbers of employees), multinational company; it is "only" big compared to most other truckers in the "wet triangle". Even BLG (big as a terminal operator) is still a medium size company. These companies are chosen deliberately: they are big enough to be able to spend some resources in taking part in a project like WISDOM, but they are still small enough to know the needs of smaller companies in the market. Very small hauliers (say a trucker with less than 10 trucks) would not have enough resources to take part in the first phase of WISDOM (and moreover, he would possibly not have a view on the transport chain which is general enough to really be beneficial to other companies in very different situations), but of course the goal is that he will very well be able to install the fully developed WISDOM service. As most orders for container transport involve either a bigger shipping line or forwarder, it is wise (with regard to market acceptance) to have their point of view within the project (but they have comparatively little shares within WISDOM, so that can't dominate the process). Kühne&Nagel and Canada Maritime are chosen as representatives of this group.