3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
cooperatives to share unused spaces, allowing carriers to drop off and pick up shipments using
the most efficient path en route to their destination.
The Internet of Things platform will provide real-time logistical data on pick-up and delivery
schedules, weather conditions, traffic flows, and up-to-the-moment information on warehouse
storage capacities en route in Luxembourg. Automated dispatching will use Big Data and
analytics to create algorithms and applications to ensure the optimization of aggregate
efficiencies along the logistical routes and, by so doing, dramatically increase productivity while
reducing the marginal cost of every shipment.
Globally, by 2020-2025, at least some of the shipments on roads, railways, water, and air
corridors, as well as some of the movement of passengers, will likely be carried out by
automated electric and fuel cell transport, powered by near zero marginal cost renewable
energies, and operated by increasingly sophisticated analytics and algorithms. Driverless
transport will accelerate productivity and reduce the marginal labor cost of shipping goods and
moving people toward near zero on a smart automated Transportation and Logistics Internet.
Luxembourg already has a highly advanced and integrated logistics infrastructure upon which
to build out and scale up an automated transportation and logistics platform. Cargolux,
LuxairCargo, and CargoCenter provide world class service in air shipments, while CFL Cargo
provides state of the art rail freight logistics, and CFL Multimodal provides a wide range of
freight services. The Cluster for Logistics has been established to advance the various logistics
services across Luxembourg. Its mission, in part, is dedicated to driving new innovations and
collaborations to streamline the logistics infrastructure and operations. Luxembourg currently
ranks second in the world for best performance in logistics according to the World Bank’s
logistics performance index. 64 Luxembourg’s highly advanced logistics infrastructure and
operations will enable the country to speed its transition into an automated, digitalized, and
soon driverless transportation and logistics hub.
The erection of the automated Transportation and Logistics Internet will also have to transform
the very way people living and working in Luxembourg view mobility. According to Eurostat,
with 672 passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, Luxembourg has the highest number of vehicles
per capita in Europe, while the average across the EU is 486 passenger cars per 1,000
inhabitants in 2013. Traffic congestion is compounded by a daily influx of workers from France,
Germany, and Belgium. More than 175,000 commuters travel into Luxembourg daily, and 86%
of them travel by car. Approximately 75% of the oil products sold in Luxembourg are consumed
outside of the country. Luxembourg offers the most lightly taxed fuel in Europe, resulting in
“gas pump tourism.” With transport accounting for 64% of global warming emissions in
64 See: http://lpi.worldbank.org/international/global
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