Efficiency and Logistics

The EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr was a winner in the Leading Edge Science Cluster competition run by the German federal Ministry of Education and Research. The mission and aim of the EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr is to facilitate tomorrows individuality in the sense of individual goods supply, mobility, and production using 75 percent of todays resources. Efficiency both in economical and ecological terms is enabled by state-of-the-art and innovative logistical solutions including transportation, production and intralogistics. These proceedings Efficiency and Logistics give first answers from 27 research projects as an insight into the current state of research of Europes leading research and development cluster in logistics and as a contribution to the discussion on how logistics as a science can help to cope with foreseeable resource shortage and sustainability as global challenges.