KOMODA followed a bottom-up approach, with a strong involvement of the freight industry stakeholders. The work included a wide Delphi survey amongst the logistics chain stakeholders to obtain a comprehensive picture of available e-logistics applications used in transport operations, their sources, availability, functionality and use by companies. Additional desk research on transport and technical requirements complemented this exercise.

Obstacles and opportunities were identified for the final development of a structured and coherent action plan for innovation and change leading towards an integrated, Europe-wide e-logistics system. Several of such IT logistics platforms are currently in use, however, mostly consist of private company applications that are not connected and often not compatible. The major challenge for the KOMODA project was to overcome the fragmentation of such solutions that were already in place. For these developments, KOMODA identified the industry requirements, in terms of the organisation of the logistic chain and technical specifications of the integrated information system.

Opportunities and obstacles affecting the future implementation of the e-Logistics integrated platform were identified, resulting in the development of recommendations to empower the former and minimise the later. KOMODA tried to break common cultural approaches in order to stimulate dialogue and common knowledge regarding the transport global situation (e.g. shift of productions towards the East, saturation of existing corridors, development of ICT with greater potential) and future scenario's which must be faced with new cooperative solutions and mentality in order to ensure that the overall transport network would be sustainable