Project LogoTakt

Technologies and Processes for Robust Clocked Logistic Networks

In the last years the traffic volume has risen continuously. Especially the road transport has experienced a considerable increase. The forecasts for the next years are even worse. However expansions of the road network have no longer the ability to absorb this enormous growth.

The Project “LogoTakt” deals with the chances linked with avoidance and shifting of road traffic, which should be realized by the utilization of open, clocked and robust Logistic networks. Clocked Systems force producers and their customers to collaborate in a way, that short term events do not cause high fluctuations of production and transport amounts. In fact the leveling of production and procurement volume should lead to clocked processes in partnership. At first the implementation of clock rates cause smaller transport amounts, which lead to an increase of truck traffic. “LogoTakt” however intends to develop technologies, processes and corresponding tools, which take up the trend towards clocked transports and at the same time try to avoid the increase of transports through an appropriate consolidation and means of transport. Therefore it is necessary to design business models, processes and tools, which guarantee robustness and timing in increasingly multimodal networks and furthermore which are able to expand transports of package and part load freight. The crucial instrument is the clock rate of open transport networks and the resulting coordination of overall processes.

The focus of the research area IPE lies in the analysis of the failure management and in the conception of the business model for open, clocked and robust Networks.

The foundation of this research is the conception, implementation and tests of the underlying transport plan realized by the research area ISPE. The group considers mathematical models and optimization algorithms for the estimation of robustness, for the development of robust transportation plans and for the dynamic adjustment of buffers.

• Contact: Clemens van Dinther ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), Jens Nimis ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
• Aided: German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi)
• Involved divisions: IPE, ISPE