Unleashing potential for the future. HighlightsComprehensive classification of existing and emerging ICT for multimodal transport. EU Framework Projects showcase ICT developments due to their cutting edge advances. Examines the barriers to e enabled multimodal transport adoption. Evaluates the impact of technological trends on barriers to multimodal ICT adoption. Captures best practices and provokes a debate through impact evaluation. Abstract. The role of information and communication technologies ICTs in freight transport as key enabler is well recognised. However the uptake of recent ICT advances for multimodal freight transport provisions in the UK and Europe has been slow. The aim of our paper is to explore the potential reasons for such a slow adoption and assess how recent technological advances such as cloud computing and Internet of Things might have changed the landscape and thus help to overcome these barriers. Via an extensive review of 3. EU framework programme projects, we are able to consolidate and present current major efforts in ICT developments in the freight multimodal transport setting at European level. We further discuss barriers inhibiting quick take up of ICT applications in multimodal transport. Resolutions were then explored by reviewing four key ICT development trends recently emerging and evaluating their potential impact in reducing such barriers for deployment. Our contribution is two fold it advances current knowledge by presenting an up to date overview of existing and emerging ICT applications in the field of multimodal transport and barriers to e enabled multimodal transport. It also captures some of the best practices in industry and aims to provoke a debate among practitioners and academics via the analysis of how innovative use of recent technological developments could potentially lower the barriers to multimodal ICT adoption and lead to a more integrated freight transport network. 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An integrated multimodal transport network is a critical factor for companies to successfully execute their supply chain processes both domestically and internationally. Characteristics and considerations Planning, programming, engineering and project delivery for statefunded capital investments administered within the UDOT. However, the complex nature of multimodal integration, for instance the involvement of a wide variety of operators can limit the growth of multimodality. One of the major constraints is the lack of effective and efficient information connectivity among and between various modes water, air, road and rail. Meanwhile, it is well recognised that information and communication technology ICT functions like the nerve system of a multimodal transport chain and brings multiple benefits to organisations by providing real time visibility, efficient data exchange, and better flexibility to react to unexpected changes during shipment Durr and Giannopoulos, 2. STAT. 406 PUBLIC LAW 112141JULY 6, 2012 Sec. State freight plans. Sec. 1119. Federal lands and tribal transportation programs. Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land rail and road, water. Amity school of engineering technology offers b. GE Digital 2 Digital Industrial Digital Industrial Built on Leading technology Service franchise GE Store Productivity and margins. Transportation Research Circulars Committee reports, including interim research findings and research problem statements, considered to be of immediate interest but. Coronado et al., 2. Gunasekaran and Lenny Koh, 2. Perego et al., 2. Prajogo and Olhager, 2. Recent developments in the field of ICT such as cloud computing, social networking and wireless communication have further revolutionised the ways information is shared and supply chains are structured. In the UK, the Digital Economy Act was published in April 2. United Kingdom Governments strategic vision for its digital economy. Recognising the transformational impact of digital technologies on aspects of community life, future society, and the economy, the Technology Strategy Board launched, in May 2. Internet of Things ecosystem of applications and services. As part of this initiative, the impact of Internet of Things for Transport has been examined via expert workshops which one of the authors was invited to attend May 2. Those expert workshops explored challenges within the transport industry that could be addressed through creative use of the Internet of Things and what needs to be done nationwide to achieve this Technology Strategy Board, 2. Subsequently priorities identified include development of new user centric methodologies, managing big data, visualisation and augmented reality, serviceoriented architectures across future networks. Despite the aforementioned benefits and strong government promotion, the uptake of recent technological advances for multimodal transport provisions in the UK and Europe has been slow Huckridge et al., 2. Perego et al., 2. Marchet et al., 2. The aim of this paper is to explore the potential reasons for such a slow adoption and assess how recent technological advances might have changed the landscape and thus help to overcome these barriers. The contribution of this paper therefore is two fold it advances current knowledge by presenting an up to date overview of existing and emerging ICT applications in the field of multimodal transport and barriers to e enabled multimodal transport. It also captures some of the best practices in industry and aims to provoke a debate among practitioners and academics via the analysis of how innovative use of recent technological developments could potentially lower the barriers to multimodal ICT adoption and lead to a more integrated multimodal freight transport network, and hence lays the foundation for further research. Our paper is mainly conceptual but a wide source of secondary data has been utilised in order to improve the validity of our analysis. An overview of the characteristics of multimodal transport is presented in Section 2 followed by a discussion of the research methods deployed in the paper in Section 3. The classification and discussion of recent ICT developments in multimodal transport are presented in Section 4. Section 5 discusses the barriers to ICT adoption in general, as well as for multimodal transport referring to both academic publications and exemplar EU projects. Section 6 tackles how recent technological developments could help reduce those barriers. Four types of merging technological trends are identified and analysed, which represent key trends in ICT developments. As those developments have only emerged recently and are still in their infancy stage, their potential application to the management of multimodal transport has not been fully explored, either in practice or by academics. We articulate our viewpoints under this section in a forward looking fashion to invite further debate or validation from both practitioners and academia. Section 7 links technological trends to Big Data and decision support systems for managing multimodal transport. In Section 8 we subsequently evaluate the impact of technological trends on barriers related to the ICT adoption and finally, Section 9 concludes the paper and provides recommendations for future research. Shipyard Safety Training Course. Multimodal transport. Multimodal transport refers to the transportation of goods by two or more different modes of transport such as road, rail, air or inland waterway, and short or deep sea shipping as part of the contract where often a multimodal transport operator MTO is responsible for the performance of the entire haulage contract from shipping to destination UN, 1. The movement of goods could be within one country or international with additional procedures such as goods clearance at customs.