logicout.fr

What It Is

Logicout is a French online logistics cost estimation tool focused on short food supply chain logistics. It can serve as a sensibilisation (awareness-raising) tool for agricultural producers, advisors, and local institutions, as well as a practical decision-making aid: diagnosing delivery practices, comparing different routes and transfer options, supporting pricing, and assessing the feasibility of deliveries to new sales outlets.

Core Features and Data Capabilities

The tool calculates costs around routes and vehicles, estimating both economic and environmental costs. Its vehicle database covers private cars, light commercial vehicles, heavy trucks, and powertrains including gasoline, diesel, electric, hybrid, E85, GPL, and GNV, with updated greenhouse gas and pollutant emission factors. The 2025 version adds batch calculations, placing route points directly on the map, selective export of saved calculation results, downloads for a full set of teaching materials, and changes the default route calculator from Mapbox to OSRM.

Pricing and Accounts

Logicout is explicitly a free application, jointly owned by Cerema and Université Gustave Eiffel, and created with public funding. After creating an account, users can save simulations, restore previous calculations, calculate the cost of combined routes, and export results in CSV format. The source text does not mention paid plans, an enterprise edition, payment methods, or commercial subscriptions.

Collaboration, Security, and API

Collaboration features are fairly basic: shared accounts between producers and advisors are not currently supported. Data is stored on Cerema and UGE servers, and users may request access, correction, deletion, or restriction of data processing. Data may be used by researchers for scientific analysis and published in anonymized, aggregated form, with a statement that there is no commercial use. An API is available, but inquiries must be made by email; public documentation, authentication details, and rate-limit information are lacking.

Pros, Cons, and Best Fit

Its strengths are that it is free, vertical-focused, considers both cost and environmental impact, and provides teaching materials and CSV export. Limitations include the inability to manually add vehicle types, lack of coverage for biomethane vehicles and cargo bikes, and limited team permission and enterprise integration capabilities. It is better suited to agricultural advisors, farmers, local food projects, and research or teaching use than to general-purpose enterprise TMS needs.

Access from China

The source text does not provide information on access from mainland China, payment, or local network performance, so these remain unknown. For local alternatives, a combination of domestic map route-planning capabilities, logistics TMS, carbon accounting tools, or agricultural supply chain management software could be considered.