Research Project

Sustainable Transports

Leveraging Vertical Standards to Enable Flexible Inter-Organizational Partnerships

This document presents a nine-month project addressing how vertical IT standards can enable information infrastructures supportive of environmental transport solutions. The project will address the following research question: How can information infrastructures be designed to leverage flexible inter-organizational partnerships that enable sustainable transport solutions? In practical terms, the overall objective of this effort is to contribute to the further development and diffusion of the MSI standard in the Swedish transport industry. The project will be conducted as an action research project including researchers, MSI Group, environmental experts, and transport industry representatives. Recognizing that flexible inter-organizational arrangements facilitate environmental transport solutions, all project actors believe that the MSI standard has the potential to become a powerful instrument for reducing CO₂ emissions. The learning outcomes from the MSI initiative are likely to be highly relevant also to actors outside the Swedish transport context.

The researcher Jens Holgersson and Sandra Haraldson has been commissioned by MSI to develop a query architecture as part of the permit for the status-driven communications within the MSI standard.

Project Manager

Associate Professor Mikael Lind, Viktoria Institute.

Assistant Project Manager

Dr. Per-Olof Arnäs, TRB Sverige & MSI Group.

Project Members, University of Borås

Jens Holgersson Researcher, InnovationLab
Sandra Haraldson Researcher institute IDA

Project duration

2009-11-19 through 2010-06-01