The development of Germany as a logistic hub in Europe, for intra-European traffic and incoming and outgoing sea transport, offers significant growth opportunities in the market for logistics services, particularly in the transport and handling sector.  However, due to the high capacity utilization of troad transport., the growth opportunities exists only if it is possible to shift traffic from road to sea or rail in order to increase vihicle utilization.

New developments in the production and distribution logistics offer new possibilities. These systems are increasingly no longer purely driven by short-term events because it can lead to large fluctuations in production and transport volume. The idea of modern concepts is rather to level production and procurement in the total volume and operate in clock processes. In return, shipment volumes tend to be smaller and the demands on the reliability of the transport processes increase, whereas the transport processes, appropriate punctuality provided, may need longer due to the levelling. Multimodal transport and the consolidation of company transports belonging to different supply networks, tend to lead to a reduction in road transport but to a reduction in reliability, as the number of system transitions and dependencies increases. 

The research project LogoTakt has set itself the goal to develop technologies, processes and tools that deal with the trend towards clocked transports and to avoid the feared increase in truck traffic through appropriate consolidation and transportation choice. For this purpose, business models, processes and tools will be developed that ensure the required punctuality and robustness in increasingly multimodal networks and at the same time increase and expand the potential for consolidation of transports in cargo and partial load range. The essential tool is the timing of the transport networks that in particular leads to a coordination of cross-partner processes.