Collaborative logistics has been widely recognised as an effective avenue to reduce carbon emissions by enhanced truck utilisation and reduced travel distance. However, stakeholders' participation in collaborations is hindered by information-sharing barriers and the absence of integrated systems. We, thus, in this paper addresses these barriers by investigating an integrated platform that foster collaboration through the integration of agents with digital twins. Specifically, we employ a multi-agent system approach to integrate stakeholders and physical mobile assets in collaborative logistics, representing them as agents. We introduce a loosely-coupled system architecture that facilitates the connection between physical and digital systems, enabling the integration of agents with digital twins. Using this architecture, we implement the platform (or testbed). The resulting testbed, comprising a physical environment and a digital replica, is a digital twin that integrates distributed entities involved in collaborative logistics. The effectiveness of the testbed is demonstrated through a carrier collaboration scenario. This paper is among the earliest few efforts to investigate the integration of agents and digital twin concepts and goes beyond the conceptual discussion of existing studies to the technical implementation of such integration.

翻译：协同物流被广泛认为是提升卡车利用率、减少运输距离，从而降低碳排放的有效途径。然而，信息共享障碍与集成系统的缺失制约了利益相关者参与协同合作。为此，本文通过研究一个融合智能体与数字孪生的集成平台来应对这些障碍。具体而言，我们采用多智能体系统方法，将协同物流中的利益相关者与物理移动资产表示为智能体并加以集成。我们提出一种松耦合系统架构，该架构能够实现物理系统与数字系统的连接，从而支持智能体与数字孪生的集成。基于该架构，我们实现了该平台（或测试平台）。最终构建的测试平台由物理环境与数字副本构成，是一个集成协同物流中分布式实体的数字孪生系统。通过一个承运商协同场景，我们验证了该测试平台的有效性。本文是为数不多探索智能体与数字孪生概念融合的早期研究之一，并超越了现有研究的概念性讨论，实现了此类融合的技术化实施。