The most common way to move goods in Europe is by truck. Trucks are easy to use, flexible, fast, reliable and transparent (with the driver providing status information). They do, however, create problems for society such as CO2 emissions, congestion and traffic accidents. Intermodal transport based on waterborne and rail transport can reduce such problems, but it requires greater planning and information exchange since a range of different actors are involved. A better means of generating, accessing and handling information is the key to achieving the amount of control and flexibility needed to compete with the door-to-door transport by truck.