Digiscan: a tool to find made-to-measure solutions for improving efficiencies in transportation

Logistics should always be in search for improvement. Digiscan is a tool which can help any company which deals with a substantial amount of freight transport flows, to choose and implement the most effective way to improve its transport efficiency which really suits this specific company best. The tool is developed to the order of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management on the basis of many years of practical consulting to transporting companies, resulting in really large efficiency gains. At the same time the tools helps companies and students from universities for professional education that help these companies, to make a sound analysis of the company. The tool now appears to be a successful instrument both for students and companies in The Netherlands, but could be used as a basis for setting up similar tools for other countries, providing the data and algorithms are easy transferable for other situations.