From January 2016 on, Matthias Prandtstetter, Scientist at Dynamic Transportation Systems, holds the chairman position of LRA (Logistics Research Austria). LRA originated in an initiative focusing on the cooperation of Austrian research institutions in the sector of (transport) logistics, supply chain management and traffic. Among the 18 members are renowned Austrian universities, universities of applied sciences and non-university research institutions. The AIT (as founder member of LRA) held the vice-chair position during the last two years (Jakob Puchinger). Starting with January 2016, the board of LRA consists now of Matthias Prandtstetter (AIT, chair), Prof. Dr. Tina Wakolbinger (WU Wien, vice-chair) and Prof. Dr. Fritz Starkl (FH OÖ – Logistikum Steyr, vice-chair).
The aim of LRA is to intensify multidisciplinarity, avoid redundancies, exploit complementarities and facilitate a wider range of covered topics, without losing scientific depth. In addition, internationalization of Austria’s logistics research is aimed at. Cooperation among the LRA members enables a multitude of methods and disciplines.
LRA is member of ALICE (Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe, http://www.etp-logistics.eu/), which is advising the European Commission with respect to developments in the logistics sector. On 2nd and 3rd February 2016, the ALICE Members met in Vienna at the WU Wien. In the course of this ALICE meeting a LRA-Forum was organized on 2nd February 2016 focusing on the critical question “Physical Internet – Caught between Fiction and Reality”. The Physical Internet is a vision summarizing a multitude of logistics concepts (among others Industry 4.0, Logistics 4.0, Synchromodality and much more). The importance of the Physical Internet and the therewith connected questions was underlined by the approx. 120 national and international participants at the LRA-Forum.
Current members of LRA:
- AIT, Mobility Department
- FH des BFI Wien
- FH Joanneum
- FH OÖ Campus Hagenberg
- FH OÖ Logistikum Steyr
- FH OÖ Campus Wels
- FH St. Pölten, Ghega-Institut
- FH Technikum Wien
- FH Würzburg-Schweinfurt
- JKU Linz, Institut PLM
- RISC Software GmbH
- TU Graz, ITL
- Universität für Bodenkultur
- V-Research
- WU Wien, FI SCM
- TH Deggendorf/TC Grafenau
- Universität Wien, POMint
- Fraunhofer Austria GmbH
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