Data sharing is the key for the logistics industry to reach climate goals

The logistics data lab started as an open and neutral arena where the transport and logistics sector would work together to take advantage of the opportunities that digitalisation and data sharing mean for the industry. The plan was to create conditions for an increased level of knowledge within data-driven innovation, but also for new actors to gain access to the logistics industry.

Increased climate benefit has been one of the driving forces for the project - says Ulrika Holmgren, who was project manager before Anna Kristiansson recently took over.

- The solution is to work with data sharing, to be able to coordinate transportation and deliveries between actors in an area. There we find enormous climate benefits and also economic benefits, says Ulrika Holmgren.

The project is run within the framework of the initiative Closer - which is a neutral collaboration platform, knowledge node and project workshop for increased transport efficiency and logistics. Recently, Closer's results conference was held in Gothenburg, and at it the city of Helginsborg told about how transparent transportation can provide lower emissions and costs as well as less heavy traffic in the vicinity of vulnerable road users. In addition, an update was given on the status of the electrification of Sweden's truck fleet and how traffic safety can be increased through digital speed limits in selected zones.

The logistics data lab has around 30 partners and collaborators from the public sector, including academia and research institutions, as well as from the logistics industry through, among other things, suppliers and goods owners as well as transporters.

The potential is great for the logistics industry - but so are the challenges. Ulrika Holmgren notes that:

- Most industries find it difficult to share data with each other and this depends on many different things. It is partly about knowledge, partly about finding the incentives for one's own activities. You also have to dare to see the win in the big picture: That we do something together and have the courage to dare to go out and share, says Ulrika Holmgren.

Watch the full film about thelab

Within the framework of the lab, a number of breakfast seminars have been held - see them afterwards

Read about the Logistikdatalab in the newspaper Dagens transport og logistik

Read the Swedish Transport Administration's report on horizontal collaborations and open data for increased occupancy