by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Last week the EU project ULaaDS (Urban Logistics as an on-Demand Service) was launched. ULaaDS brings together 24 partners, including city authorities, research institutions, industry and logistics stakeholders, associations, and networks to support the deployment of innovative, feasible, shared, and zero-emission solutions across a three-year period.
Whole Foods opened a store that you can’t walk into or shop at. Fast Company reports about it. The store is located in Brooklyn and dedicated to fulfilling online orders. It’s Whole Foods’ first purpose-built online-only store. Though six of its stores were temporarily converted to handle only online orders, this new dedicated online-only store …
There has recently been a stream of research dedicated to the combined use of walking and driving for home on-site services Inspired by actual parcel delivery operations in London, a new paper describes a two-echelon distribution system that combines the use of driving and walking as part of last-mile deliveries in urban areas for a …
The ALICE Urban Logistics Leadership Team presents actions to prevent an ecological second wave in the supply chain. Several supply chain patterns in place for the last decades are strongly questioned by the COVID-19 crisis. In the last few months, we are living an unprecedented and very fast transformation and transition of society and economy to new …
The significant reduction in vehicle journeys during the COVID-19 lockdown did not reduce the level of toxic fine particles in Scotland’s air, according to experts at the University of Stirling. Analysis of fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) in the first month of restrictions found little change despite a 65 percent reduction in the number of …
The innovation race for consumer parcel delivery with drones is on. After UPS and Google, Amazon is the third company to achieve this milestone from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enabling expanded use of their drone delivery system to connect rural destinations for improved delivery times.
Dutch Sligro Food Group (food service) started the operational test of this unique vehicle that has been specially developed for sustainable and efficient urban distribution. The design is not based on an existing electric van or truck, but rather the other way around. Based on a vision for the future of urban distribution and functional …
The urban population increase results in more supply chain operations in these areas, which leads to increased energy consumption and environmental problems. In a new paper, about a multi-objective approach for optimizing city logistics considering energy efficiency the authors describe an optimization model of a multi-echelon collection and distribution system, focusing on downtown areas and …
Road transport is responsible for 50 percent of oil consumption worldwide and increasing. The IEA Key World Energy Statistics (KWES) is an introduction to energy statistics, providing top-level numbers across the energy mix, from supply and demand to prices and research budgets, including outlooks, energy indicators, and definitions.
In recent years, several quay walls have collapsed in Amsterdam (NL). The state of the quays is so problematic that an orthodox approach is no longer sufficient. Amsterdam has more than 600 kilometers of public quay wall, of which 200 kilometers are in poor condition. Of those 200 kilometers, 50 kilometers is very bad.