KEYSTONE project kicks off
The consortium partners start the 3-year project with four initial Work Packages simultaneously.
KEYSTONE seeks in developing a universal EU-wide API standard for the secure exchange, transfer and sharing of sensitive documentation between logistics operators and enforcement authorities. This is especially needed at border crossings, where time is of the essence and multi-lingual communication often poses a problem.
Within the project, a complete web app is developed and piloted on two corridors, spanning from the North of Italy to the Benelux coastline, connecting two big economic centres of Europe.
During the first year of the project, the following Work Packages will set the project processes up, schedule activities in greater detail and validate the underlying requirements and industry/legal needs:
WP 1 - Gap Analysis and State of the Art: To ensure that the app conceptualisation and purpose adhere to national and international standards, legislation and best practices, these are analysed. The insights will inform later Work Packages dealing with the more pragmatic architecture and development of the KEYSTONE web app.
WP 2 - Development of an Implementation Framework for Plug & Play: A web app has many advantages, including a high compatibility with all kinds of hardware and operating systems. To make sure the solution is not competing, but instead complimentary to existing solution in use today, a technical analysis is conducted.
WP 6 - Communication, Dissemination, Replicability & Exploitation: Setting up all communication and dissemination channels of the project and informing target audiences of the purpose of the project is a first step in ensuring that the end users of the KEYSTONE solution (enforcement authorities and logistics operators) can take it up at a later stage of the project.
WP 7 - Project Management: a good project management starts early to lay out and monitor all activities, risks and internal processes (such as the financial and technical reporting). Part of this work will also be the communication channel to the European Commission and the United Kingdom Research & Innovation respectively.
Author: Friederike L. Kühl (Smart Transportation Alliance)
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