by Walther Ploos van Amstel
The growth of parcel logistics presents challenges for municipalities striving for a livable, sustainable, and safe urban environment. Do parcel lockers contribute to these goals? Municipalities need a concrete action perspective: what role can parcel lockers play? A research project for Dutch Top Sector Logistics provides a neutral framework that offers both strategic and practical …
Budbee, part of Instabee, is making a bold move in the Netherlands by redefining parcel delivery: “We’re no longer doing home deliveries,” says General Manager Jørgen Höppener. The company aims to make parcel delivery both genuinely sustainable and profitable. Budbee plans to deliver parcels exclusively to its approximately 1,000 parcel lockers nationwide. This shift is …
Dutch PostNL is opening up its 1,000 parcel lockers machines to other carriers. GLS Netherlands is the first competitor to utilize this network for parcel deliveries. PostNL aims to connect more carriers to the network in the future. This is good news; the future of home delivery is in joint delivery with shared fleets. However, …
Integrating parcel lockers has become crucial as urban spaces evolve, especially with the booming e-commerce sector. A new ULaaDS publication, developed by Bax & Company, with valuable insights from Gemeente Groningen (NL) and the University of Groningen, addresses the rapid expansion of these services and their impact on urban life and public spaces. Key highlights …
Recently, Norway’s Transport Economics Institute published a study on parcel lockers and their impact on CO2 reduction. According to this study, picking up parcels at automated lockers can result in a 30 percent reduction of CO2 in local emissions. This will reduce fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, and local emissions from online shopping distribution. The researchers …
Alternative solutions for sustainable last-mile parcel deliveries have been piloted and partially implemented in Europe in the past decade. However, these delivery concepts have mainly been considered in inner-city areas. There are a few examples of applying these concepts in peripheral urban areas, where new housing is being built to accommodate high population pressure. However, …
Parcel lockers have emerged as a potential solution to the last-mile delivery challenges and are believed to reduce delivery times and traffic congestion. However, there has been no empirical analyses of the impacts of parcel lockers (in larger residential buildings) on delivery times. Researchers found that using lockers caused a 50–60% drop in the average …
How can we boost out-of-home deliveries? This could be a promising question for those who still believe out-of-home deliveries (click-and-collect) are more sustainable. The ‘last mile’ of delivery is the journey from the depot to our front door. Most last-mile journeys are taken by delivery vans, meaning each delivery contributes to air pollution and congestion. …
Dutch PostNL will open its parcel locker network to other carriers in 2023. This means that from then on, consumers will be able to pick up and send parcels from different carriers at a PostNL parcel locker. This is an exciting development in the parcel market to give consumers more (sustainable) delivery options. Automatic parcel …
Albert Heijn, bol.com, and Budbee will collaborate to make the collection and return of parcels easier. Across 700 large Albert Heijn stores, parcel lockers will be installed to allow customers to pick up and return their bol.com parcels and parcels from other online shops working with Budbee. With the partnership, the three brands want to …