The Study on the Framework and Implementation Scheme of the Railway Intelligent Cold Chain Logistics System

With the development of intelligent and communication technology, traditional logistics has gradually transformed into intelligent logistics. The construction of the railway intelligent cold chain logistics system is an effective measure to implement the structural adjustment of supply, which conforms to the times. Firstly, basic features and design principles of the railway intelligent cold chain logistics system were described. Secondly, target functions and the system framework of the railway intelligent cold chain logistics were put forward, which takes information service as a foundation, management service as a guarantee, business capability as kernel and expansion capability as support. Subsequently, the technical approaches were studied at the hardware, processing and software levels. Finally, development strategies of the railway intelligent cold chain logistics were discussed, including optimizing the layout of infrastructure, improving the performance of equipment, extending the reach of services, deepening the cooperation of technologies and promoting the formulation of standards which provides feasible references for the railway cold chain logistics to explore modern business models.

Guest editorial of “Intelligent logistics and supply chains”

Information and communication technology （ICT） has been considered as an enabling tool for having more effective and efficient operations in the management of logistics and supply chains for many years. Various information and communication technologies are used to improve perfor- mance of the logistics and supply chain network, such as ＂data mining＂, ＂radio frequency identification （RFID）＂, ＂machine learning＂, ＂smart transportation＂. While ICT systems are vital components in logistics and supply chains, their successful management rests on intelligent and inte- grated decision making throughout the logistics network. Intelligent decision technologies are applied to collect and store real-time data and then analyze and interpret the data and information of product, inventory, manufacturing and sales to discover useful knowledge for making better operation and management decisions. Advanced simulation and optimization of planning and scheduling systems are also used for improvement of inventory, production, pro-curement, and distribution planning. Intelligent agents can communicate with different partners in the supply chain, assist in collecting information, share product information, negotiate prices, and distribute alerts throughout the logis- tics and supply chains networks.

Personalized trajectory data perturbation algorithm based on quadtree indexing

To solve the privacy leakage problem of truck trajectories in intelligent logistics,this paper proposes a quadtreebased personalized joint location perturbation(QPJLP)algorithm using location generalization and local differential privacy(LDP)techniques.Firstly,a flexible position encoding mechanism based on the spatial quadtree indexing is designed,and the length of the encoding can be adjusted freely according to data availability.Secondly,to meet the privacy needs of different locations of users,location categories are introduced to classify locations as sensitive and ordinary locations.Finally,the truck invokes the corresponding mechanism in the QPJLP algorithm to locally perturb the code according to the location category,allowing the protection of non-sensitive locations to be reduced without weakening the protection of sensitive locations,thereby improving data availability.Simulation experiments demonstrate that the proposed algorithm effectively meets the personalized trajectory privacy requirements while also exhibiting good performance in trajectory proportion estimation and top-k classification.