Meet ALICE
ALICE, the Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe is a non-profit association, gathering 200 members from the logistics and supply chain sectors. It is established to develop a comprehensive industry lead strategy for research, innovation and market deployment of logistics and supply chain management.
Bringing together leading industry players, research organisations, and public stakeholders, ALICE fosters collaboration across sectors to address major challenges such as decarbonisation, digitalisation, and supply chain resilience. Recognized by the European Commission as a European Technology Platform, ALICE plays a key role in aligning stakeholders around common priorities to support the strategic goals of the European Green Deal, the Digital Europe programme, and Horizon Europe by supporting projects and initiatives that advance integrated, low-emission, and future-proof logistics systems.
ALICE’s vision: Future logistics, from global to urban, will be founded on a global open system of systems enabling assets and resources in logistics networks to be interconnected facilitating their use to the maximum capacity and productivity while increasing agility and resilience of supply chains. We call this vision the Physical Internet (PI) and it will support the affordable transition of assets towards Zero emissions logistics.
Can you provide an overview of your role and involvement in the DELPHI project?
ALICE contributes to DELPHI’s work on governance, regulatory and stakeholder by leading the production of the state-of-the-art in governance and stakeholder’s as well as the multilevel governance and cross-sectoral regulatory aspects production and the digitalization of information flows, stakeholder analysis, user stories, functional requirements.
ALICE also actively participates in dissemination, communication, exploitation, and community building by leading the networking, community building and liaison activity of DELPHI. ALICE represents DELPHI in instances such as the Multimodal Traffic Management Cluster, formed by several EU-funded projects working on the same topic, aligning actions and objectives. As well as presence in many European-level events and webinars.
ALICE is responsible for the deliverable on Standardization contributions & Policy recommendation. ALICE contributes to DELPHI’s project management and coordination on administrative and financial project management & risk management.
What are some challenges you encounter as part of your work with the DELPHI project?
One of the main challenges is addressing the fragmentation of standards and practices across the European logistics landscape. With diverse actors, transport modes, and national contexts, aligning on common frameworks – especially for urban and multimodal logistics – requires significant coordination. Another key difficulty lies in bridging the gap between innovation and regulation: transforming technical findings into policy-relevant recommendations that are both forward-looking and actionable across different governance levels. Data sharing and interoperability also pose ongoing challenges, particularly in fostering trust, semantic alignment, and secure frameworks among a wide range of public and private stakeholders.
What is your future perspective in relation to the DELPHI topic?
Looking ahead, ALICE sees the DELPHI project as a key step toward shaping a more harmonised and sustainable European logistics ecosystem. One of our priorities is to ensure that the innovative concepts developed within DELPHI contribute to long-term systemic change — particularly through their integration into relevant standards and reference frameworks. We believe that standardisation is essential for scaling up successful solutions and ensuring interoperability across transportation modes, regions, and actors.
We also see DELPHI as a strong platform for generating evidence-based policy recommendations that support EU objectives. Our ambition is to translate the project’s findings into actionable guidance for public authorities and industry stakeholders, helping to bridge the gap between innovation and implementation.
ALICE is committed to fostering synergies with other projects, associations, and international initiatives. We will continue to actively engage with the wider R&I community and the industry to ensure that DELPHI’s outcomes are aligned with broader efforts in the transport and logistics sector, and to strengthen a shared vision.
Anything else you would like to mention or highlight?
ALICE is proud to support the DELPHI project, as it addresses some of the most pressing challenges in freight and urban logistics. DELPHI’s ambition to foster data-driven, multimodal, and sustainable logistics solutions is fully aligned with ALICE’s vision of an integrated, decarbonized, and resilient freight network. By contributing our expertise and engaging our broad network of stakeholders, ALICE helps ensure that DELPHI’s outcomes are connected to industry needs and support EU policy objectives.
