Moving parcels from origin to destination should not require a lot of re-planning. However, the vast number of shipments and destinations, which need to be re-aligned in real-time due to various external factors makes the delivery process a complex issue to tackle. Anticipating the impact of external factors though can provide more robust logistic plans which are resilient to changes. The work described in this paper, was carried out in the EU-funded COG-LO project and addresses the issue of parcel delivery across the road network making use of context-awareness information as an input for the optimization operations. A positive impact derived from the implementation of these services is expected due to complex event detection, context awareness and decision support at both local and global level of logistics operations.
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