Physical Internet Characterization

Over the last years, a new developed paradigm known as Physical Internet (PI) has been appeared, and studied in logistics management. The purpose of this global and open system is to deal with logistics grand challenge by setting up an efficient and sustainable Logistics Web. Methodology and approach: the purpose of this paper is to review of scientific articles dedicated to Physical Internet topic, and to provide a clustering strategy enabling to classify the literature on the Physical Internet, to follow its evolution, as well as to criticize it. The classification is based on three factors: Logistics Web, organization, and resources. Results: Several papers about Physical Internet have been classified and analyzed along the Logistics Web, resources and organization views at a strategic, tactical and operational level, respectively. A developed cluster analyses shows that Physical Internet needs more studies and more analyses to be adopted. Outcomes: The Physical Internet system has attracted several researchers in the last 4 years, and since then more articles have been published. However, this topic is still on papers and it needs more practice.