Achievements in multimodal standards in transport and logistics Henk van Maaren

Henk van Maaren UN/CEFACT TBG3 Secretary ITIGG Secretary Project leader Transport Core Components and Transport Business Processes Modelling within UN/CEFACT Represents TBG3 at the WCO DMPT, GS1 eCom Logistics group, IATA Cargo XML group, etc.

eBusiness includes : Traditional EDI e.g. UN/EDIFACT Internet solutions e.g. (eb)XML Automatic identification techniques e.g. barcodes, RFID, etc. mobile communications

Leading direction of TBG3 using consistent semantics (data, codes) independent of technical solution multimodal solutions applying modern modelling techniques based on existing (EDI)-implementations within UN/CEFACT in co-operation and co-ordination with other sectors and government

Existing eBusiness standards EDIFACT standards for Transport EDI Trade Data Elements Directory (TDED) UN Recommendations on codes in transport RFID standards for example for seacontainers

Existing implementation recommendations ITIGG Recommendations for multimodal consistent EDI implementations Multi Industry Scenarios for Transport (MIST) on implementation between trade and transport Container message scenario Modal and subsectorial implementations

Transport projects in UN/CEFACT MultiModal Transport structure as subset of Core Components, in development Status Report Transport Instruction Transport Waybill (overall and multimodal) Dangerous Goods Declaration Cargo Tracing and Tracking