The historic Dutch city of Delft has embarked on a public-private smart city initiative to help reduce truck congestion in the city centre using semi-autonomous, hydrogen-powered barges in existing waterways for ‘last mile’ transportation. This collaboration is intended to help reduce traffic, in turn helping the region meet carbon emission, sustainability and economic development targets. The collective has engaged in a trial to create a Common Information Space for smart city logistics, built using technologies from Dell EMC and Nokia for computation, storage, data management, connectivity, analytics, IoT and blockchain. An automated and digitised hydrogen-powered river barge will be connected and controlled by a new type of mobility cloud.
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