Vitrociset

Integrated Multimodal Platform for Urban and extra urban Logistic System Optimization

Financing body: Ministry for Economic Development (MSE)
Industria 2015 (Italian Government’s Industrial Policy Bill) – Sustainable Mobility

Theme b2): “Systems for secure mobility by integration between vehicles and facilities for the passenger and/or freight transport”

Consortium:

VITROCISET (Coordinator), Info Solution., Italdata Ingegneria dell'Idea, I.Log iniziative logistiche, OPTISOFT, CNR, Elsag Datamat, Softeco Sismat, Consorzio Milano Ricerche, Università di Palermo, Powersoft, EAT European Advanced Technologies, ACT Solutions, Media Plus, Università di Roma “Sapienza”, Aitek, Planetek Italia, CIPI Centro Interuniversitario sull’Ingegneria delle Piattaforme Informatiche, Globo Informatica, Click&Find, TXT e-solutions, Project  Automation, Creasys, and Telespazio.

Duration: 36 months
Budgeted: 14.0 M€ in total – 3.0 M€ (Vitrociset)
Financed: 6 M€ in total – 1.1 M€ (Vitrociset)

Project summary
The IMPULSO project is aimed at the development of new technologies and capacities for the operational improvement of freight transport and handling based on cooperation and open standards, and offers the maximum level of security.
IMPULSO consists in an integrated system for goods handling in freight villages, in the medium to long haul distribution, in storage facilities of metropolitan distribution centres located in the outskirts of large cities and, finally, in the retail distribution of urban areas.

This distribution model is illustrated in the following chart.