Project Lead: 4 Colors
Sector: Transport/Logistics
Project Summary
The project addresses a major logistics optimisation challenge: routing goods through a transport network, deciding where and how consignments are consolidated, and ensuring they can be physically loaded into vehicles. Today these decisions are often made separately, leading to underutilised capacity, costly replanning, and avoidable emissions.
The team will create a single integrated optimisation model and apply quantum computing at two points in a decomposition-based workflow: load-unit selection and routing/service-activation decisions. Quantum algorithms will be benchmarked across photonic quantum hardware, gate-based quantum processors (and emulators).
Expected outcomes include a coupled logistics benchmark suite, validated industrial solutions and use cases, evidence of where quantum adds value, and a decision framework identifying which logistics subproblems are best suited to each quantum computing modality.
