Towards greener logistics — unified data sharing
Research and prototype of a unified data sharing platform service in a multi-organisational logistics environment.
Context
The thesis sat at the intersection of two trends — emissions reporting requirements were tightening, and shared-data infrastructure for multi-org logistics was non-existent. The research question was whether a workable shared-data layer could be designed in practice, not just on paper.
Problem
Reporting standards assumed someone in the chain would have all the numbers. In practice nobody did. The thesis treated this as an engineering problem rather than a policy problem — what would the actual data layer look like, who runs what, who trusts what.
Approach
Started with the regulatory landscape (CSRD-adjacent expectations, voluntary carbon reporting frameworks), mapped what data each party in a typical chain holds, and built a small prototype that demonstrated the sharing flow end to end on representative data.
Outcome
Published on Theseus and used as background for the EU work that followed. The thesis itself is the start of an arc — Sea4Value and FEDeRATED are downstream of the questions it raised.
What I learned
Writing a thesis as a working prototype, not just a literature review, is what made the work actually useful afterwards. Code outlives prose.