  The Physical Internet (PI) raises high expectations for efficiency gains in
transport and logistics. The PI represents the network of logistics networks
for physical objects in analogy to the Data Internet (DI). Road based traffic
represents one of these logistics networks. Here, many empty runs and
underutilized trips still take place. Hence, there is a lot of potential in the
road-based Physical Internet (RBPI), which will have an impact on transport and
logistics strategies, but also on vehicle design. On the DI, logistics
strategies are implemented in protocols. In order to transfer such concepts to
the RBPI, relevant protocols of the DI had been analyzed and transferred to the
world of physical objects. However, not all functionalities can be transferred
one-to-one, e.g. a data packet in the DI can simply be re-generated by a hub in
case of damage or loss. To compensate for the challenges, a framework artifact
has been designed with appropriate transformation customizations based on
design science principles. From this, resulting requirements for future
vehicles were derived. This paper makes a contribution to the implementation of
the RBPI in order to fit road based vehicles to the future world of transport
and logistics.
