VITE: Virtual Transport Enterprise

Integrating the supply chain through intelligent transportation and electronic commerce

How

Through VITE, participants will develop new business models based on user requirements and demonstrate how such models can be efficiently implemented using proven information and communication technologies, e.g. Internet based electronic commerce, GIS, intelligent scheduling and planning, etc.

VITE will test and evaluate various systems that have the potential to be the basis of such across-the-board integration.

VITE partners will combine commercial interest of partners to focus this development and rely on leading edge R&D partners to ensure high quality, reliability and longevity of the results. VITE will through this process develop practical methods that allow partners in such virtual enterprises to create their own particular business models in a plug-and-play manner.

Partners from the following areas will be included:

• transport - logistics
• communications and information technologies
• commerce
• manufacturing
• retail and wholesales
• consultancies

The new models of business will be simulated so that investment in the development of these systems can deliver predictable results.

An industrial testbed and demonstration will be developed as well as an exploitation plan and training package for quick transfer of technology.

The international aspects of the development are twofold:

• Consortium partners who are in similar business but are not in direct competition can join efforts to develop a system that each can independently utilise
• Involved SMEs will have the opportunity to develop, based on the system, new international business aspects of their business through newly created virtual enterprises, such as connection with international transport and export / import companies. This will be facilitated through the involvement of local expertise in the participating regions (Australia, European Union, US, Canada, Japan)