Mobility & Transportation

The increasing digitisation of the aviation industry requires airlines, airfreight carriers and airports to cope with the transformation towards connected, dynamic and high-performance business processes. This affects the handling of passengers and freight, the planning of transport and resource capacities, as well as the coordination with respective logistics partners.

d-fine supports its clients, for example, through the application of optimisation algorithms for market-driven network planning, intelligent gate positioning, and efficient capacity and revenue management. For the latter, we develop dynamic pricing models, taking into account stochastic effects and capacity buffers. We also implement predictive models for maintenance, making use of digital twins, and support our clients in the cargo sector with the automation of the supply chain and intermodal routing.

Innovative fuel technologies and an efficient interaction of the mobility and energy sectors will become increasingly important over the next few years.

Car manufacturers, fleet operators, municipalities, energy suppliers and system operators are facing common challenges. The timely development of charging infrastructure, integration into existing power grids and the technical implementation requires complex system adaptations.

d-fine supports its clients in this highly dynamic environment by providing specialised technological skills for the cross-sector integration of new business processes. Here, for example, we analyse the viability of alternative fuel technologies and smart charging infrastructures or develop dynamic pricing strategies and integrated payment processes, e.g. based on distributed ledger technologies.

Digitisation poses new challenges for ports in intelligent data linking and exchange between terminal operators, shipping companies, customs authorities and the providers of mainland logistics services. At the same time, these developments unlock enormous potential for increasing efficiency, for example by furthering paperless processes, with the automation of reporting and customs procedures, and using data based process optimisation of terminal operations.

d-fine supports its customers in this dynamic environment by offering technologically specialised skills to develop intermodal transport and data platforms, as well as with innovative digital technologies such as machine learning for predictive models of ETA, ETD or dynamic freight routing in smart containerisation. We use new technologies in the port environment and integrate these into commercial TOS software and existing databases.

Urbanisation and a stronger focus on quality of life test existing mobility solutions and pose increasing challenges for the public transport sector. Advanced digitisation and innovative technologies are the main driving forces in the development of sustainable mobility concepts. Open data standards, APIs and intermodal mobility platforms must be integrated, intelligent scheduling and routing solutions developed, and mobility demand predicted accurately and dynamically.

To cope with these changes, d-fine supports its customers in modelling mobility demand and associated OD matrices, developing predictive models using modern technologies, implementing adaptive traffic models and simulations, as well as developing algorithms for route optimisation and modelling of virtual stops. In addition, focus areas include the development of mobility platforms using standardised interfaces and the integration of commercial software, taking into account the integration of intermodal scheduling and dynamic tariff models, vehicle localisation data and ticketing processes.
 

The concept of “smart rail” entails far more than the development of a digital infrastructure. When it comes to the optimisation of network planning, the automation of operational processes, and the exchange of data between network operators and service companies, the use of innovative solutions is increasing.

d-fine supports its clients by offering a specialised technological consulting approach, for example, improving train schedules by using mathematical optimisation, developing dynamic pricing models for increased capacity utilisation, or implementing predictive models for train failures and efficient maintenance intervals. For passenger traffic and the transportation of goods, we implement highly specialised components and support the integration of commercial software into the existing IT system landscape for the entire rail sector.

Comprehensive networking along the transport chain from the manufacturer to the logistics centre, retailer and consumer has the potential to achieve a synergy between transparency, manipulation prevention and efficiency that has never been seen before. Fully digitalised accompanying goods documentation will enormously shorten transport times, affording logistics experts an opportunity to concentrate on what drives them: the movement of goods.

d-fine supports its clients in this dynamic field by offering its specialised technological skills, particularly when it comes to the integration of big data systems and the use of machine learning methods for the analysis of FMS data, dynamic route management along the transport chain. In the implementation, we consider customer-specific conditions and the use of distributed ledger technologies such as blockchain as a service (BaaS) for efficient tracking and tracing within the supply chain. For this purpose, we work with you to offer highly adaptable components or to integrate common software from established providers.

Finance and controlling are in an unprecedented state of upheaval. In the course of digitisation, new technical possibilities are making the far-reaching remodelling of existing organisational structures unavoidable. With our extensive experience in digital change management and given the technical and quantitative expertise of our consultants, we support you not only in terms of the classic issues relating to finance and control, but also with planning and implementing your new strategy. We help you to set up flexible, comprehensively networked IT systems that not only improve your operational processes, but also support you with strategic decisions and thus facilitate agile company management in real time.

d-fine supports you with innovative ideas and concrete proposals to meet the growing challenges of corporate treasury & risk management. In doing so, we pursue an integrated approach so that the entirety of all risks jeopardising the success of your company can be identified, quantified and actively managed using established methods – even going beyond the interplay of market, credit and liquidity risks. We would be pleased to support you in questions of compliance and the implementation of the necessary regulatory and accounting standards.

Our holistic consulting approach includes professional and technical solutions, developed hand-in-hand with you to meet your particular requirements. We can support you, for instance, in the professional and technical analysis of end-to-end processes using process mining and in the mapping of the functions and processes you require in treasury and risk systems, from system selection through to implementation.

Ensuring that mobility and logistics providers act sustainably and responsibly is increasingly becoming the focus of companies and the general public. Furthermore, regulator focus on such topics is growing.

In addition to decarbonization, i.e. avoiding greenhouse gas emissions and the enforcement of social and labour law standards in the supply chain, the transition from a linear to circular economy is of particular relevance.

d-fine supports clients in assessing the sustainability of their products and processes, setting up transparent sourcing and production networks and developing strategies for transforming to decarbonized and circular value chains. Depending on the particular challenge, we apply a myriad of different tools – for example mathematical modelling of complex systems, simulations of network dependencies or implementation of bespoke software solutions.