Blockchain-Based System to Support the Authorisation and Execution of the Transport of Dangerous Waste Across Europe

Auteurs

Roth U., Grandjean T., Nicolas D., Imeri A., Watrinet M.L.

Référence

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 438 LNNS, pp. 843-860, 2022

Description

The transportation of dangerous good and especially of dangerous waste across several countries is a process that is standardised in the EU by law. This process describes the information that must be provided in the application form by the requester and requires that each country through which the waste is moved agrees before an authorisation for the transportation can be given. It also tells which entities must be informed at arrival and later after the processing of the waste in the treating facilities. Currently, most communication between the involved institutions does not based on IT systems. This paper deals with the question, if and how a fully digitised solution on the base of a blockchain framework could work. It discusses the question on how the balance between confidentially and transparency of data that is used during the authorisation process, during the transportation and in emergency situations can be ensured. We analysed the various options of on-chain and off-chain use of the managed data as well as encryption and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each option. One of the big challenges that we had to face is the unknown set of involved parties of each new transportation request: How can confidentially be ensured for that specific group of participants that is not known during the deployment of the process in the blockchain? Without a proper solution it might be not possible to manage confidential data on base of a blockchain solution in general for this class of use case. As the most promising framework that could help, we took a special look on the Hyperledger Fabric framework. It provides two options to share confidential data between a set of participants: channels and private data collections. We analyse if one of these options could be a solution for our main challenge.

Lien

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-98012-2_59