L'organisation de la logistique industrielle et ses impacts sur le transport

On the basis of the SAST-study "European Priorities in Science and Technology with reference to Feight Logistics" the authors describe the relevance of a science and technology programme on Eurologistics. To that end some relevant definitions on logistics are given and the working procedure of the SAST-project is described. Five driving forces explaining the fast-changing logistic scene are given. Also five critical issues which came out of the SAST-report are summarized. From this a number of conclusions are drawn concerning European policy in general and the science and technology policy more specifically. The focus of this article is on the transport aspect of logistics.