Almost every other pilot asks whether the technology works. This one asks whether the market is ready — specifically, whether Swedish SME road hauliers, who make up the bulk of the sector, have the digital maturity and the systems to take part in eFTI-based information exchange at all.
The instrument is a survey, developed and methodologically validated, to be followed by interviews and a technical pre-validation of eCMR data export and structure. The aim is to map how much eCMR is actually in use, which transport information those solutions hold, and whether it can be extracted, structured and shared in formats relevant to future eFTI platform and gate environments. Alongside it, the pilot identifies market leaders and followers in eCMR adoption and logistics digitalisation, and analyses the organisational, technical and business factors behind readiness.
Phase 1 is deliberately kept away from system integration, which is also its main risk mitigation: the pilot can produce useful evidence regardless of when the XSD stabilises or the Nordic Gate arrangements conclude.
