by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Dutch Flitsmeister Pickup connects the local retailer to a community of 1.7 million loyal users. This enables the retailer to deliver quickly and efficiently. In addition, the user can lend a hand and earn some extra money. Flitsmeister warns drivers about speed cameras, saves fines, and provides real-time traffic information and now: Flitsmeister Pickup.
Susanne Balm, Project Leader, Sustainable Logistics at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, presents the results of a research survey into what technical operators expect from a hub for service logistics.
Together with their suppliers and logistics service providers, the Dutch Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have worked five years on sustainable deliveries to their campuses. The result: an approach to sustainable logistics that can be scaled up to other large cities. The impact: fewer kilometers traveled by vehicles, more …
Singapore is leading the way in last-mile innovation. Singapore is planning a national locker network of 1,000 locations open to all the logistics players and to all e-commerce platforms. Results from a pilot in December 2018 showed that a driver was able to deliver up to 250 parcels per day to the parcel lockers, about four …
One of my favorite recipes is pork cheek; Carrillada Ibérica. I always buy my cheeks at butcher Kema on the Amsterdam Kinkerstraat near the busy Ten Katemarkt. That’s a nice shopping trip if we have time. But, with our busy lives… Fortunately, we can now buy online at our butcher with Local Heroes.
With bars and restaurants being forced to shut down by Dutch government, foodservice suppliers open up their cash-and-carry warehouses for the general public. Following the corona restrictions, the central bureau of food suppliers (CBL) requested the government to open up the big food suppliers for the public. Supplier GEPU already opened its Utrecht store to …
Picnic delivers e-groceries to thousands of customers every day. To do so both efficiently and effectively, Picnic’s distribution system needs to be as smooth as possible. One part of this system is the vehicle routing model, which determines which routes are optimal given the customers and their placed orders, amongst other factors. An important input …
Recent growth in e-commerce has impacted the distribution of parcel deliveries in cities, with residential deliveries accounting for a rapidly growing share of urban freight movement. Through field observation and development of a simulation model, a study by UTRC aims to investigate the characteristics of parcel delivery activity in a heavily residential area of Manhattan, …
To make the shift from van-based to e-cargobike-based last-mile delivery easier, Velove introduced Velovers: trained and certified e-cargobike couriers. Swedish Velove developed an award-winning e-cargo bike, the Armadillo, and a containerized last-mile delivery solution for this purpose. This solution is more productive, energy-efficient and city-friendly than any type of van for small parcel delivery in urban …
Floating car data (FCD) is commonly used to derive historic travel times on individual roads, as well as evaluate traffic data algorithms. FCD, which is GPS data obtained from navigation devices and applications, provides a vehicle’s location and speed to feed live automated traffic management systems with essential information. TomTom’s Nick Cohn writes about it on …