Applying intelligent methods in logistics control

The purpose of this research and development project is to construct the foundations of a logistics IT center with a universal and intermodal character, i.e., covering all modes of transportation and corresponding central functions related to warehouses and container terminals. Through its modular structure it is applicable to arbitrary concrete site dependent needs. It also contains intelligent elements, which offer suboptimal solutions to certain classic mathematical optimization problems connected to logistics, acceptable from a practical point of view and tractable in the computer science sense. In order to realize and implement this system, several basic research tasks both in logistics and IT were solved. A model for a logistics center was constructed, suitable for present infrastructural situation in Central and Eastern Europe but compatible with European Union standards.