3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
the course of the next 30 years, they will likely increasingly reposition themselves as
aggregators of the global automated Transportation and Logistics Internet, managing mobility
services and logistics.
The convergence of the Communication Internet, Renewable Energy Internet, and automated
Transportation and Logistics Internet in an operating kernel becomes the global brain for an
Internet of Things cognitive infrastructure. This new digital platform will fundamentally change
the way people living and working in Luxembourg manage, power, and move economic activity
across the numerous value chains and networks that make up their economy. The digitalized
Internet of Things platform is the core of the Third Industrial Revolution.
STATE OF PLAY AND LUXEMBOURG VISION
Luxembourg, as a small country located between Belgium, France and Germany, is located at
the heart of an integrated cross-border region. This strategic position allows the nation to have
good connections with European road, rail, water, and air networks and to stand as an
important point of intersection and interaction between passengers and logistics flows.
The country’s projected strong economic and population growth (according to Eurostat, 67
population is expected to exceed 1 million in 2050) contributes to increased transportation and
mobility, both playing a key role in the daily life of the national economy and society.
Policies and interventions need to be reviewed or identified in order to reach the targets
defined in the Europe 2020 strategy, which requires Luxembourg to initiate far more aggressive
efforts towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions and generating more renewable energy. 68
A mobility challenge
The Luxembourg government has identified issues that mobility will face in the future and, in
2012, published a plan for a sustainable mobility called MoDu (“Mobilité Durable,” Sustainable
Mobility), 69 providing a set of objectives for the foreseeable future.
According to the MoDu, 2009 mobility modal share is composed of 72.5% motorized individual
vehicles, 14.5% transport en commun 70 and 13% active mobility.
67 Eurostat (2013), European Population Projections EUROPOP 2013
68 See : http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/pdf/csr2016/cr2016_luxembourg_en.pdf
69 Ministère du Development Durable et des Infrastructures (2012) MoDu: Stratégie globale pour une mobilité
durable pour les résidents et les frontaliers.
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