by Walther Ploos van Amstel
CTPark Amsterdam City is open for lease. The first XXL city hub’s shell and logistics infrastructure are ready. The finishing touches will be put on the inside in the coming weeks. The complex will open in early 2023. CTPark Amsterdam City is a unique building by Dutch standards, says Remon Vos, CEO of CTP, owner …
Unlike autonomous car applications, the operational area of urban service autonomous robots like autonomous delivery robots (ADRs) is not clearly defined. Moreover, assessing the feasibility of various operating scenarios is difficult due to large variations in the different robot designs, specific local infrastructure, and regulations. A new paper presents a prototype evaluation methodology based on …
The expanding freight traffic in the courier, express, and parcel services (CEP) sector is increasingly posing major challenges to urban agglomerations. The main driver for this development is the dynamic growth of e-commerce, as it causes a change in consumer behavior towards an on-demand economy and continuous growth in the volume of shipments in the …
Deutsche Post DHL Group officially launched parcel transport via parcel streetcar in the state capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Around 450 DHL parcel shipments will be transported on the new particular line in the city area every weekday. The additional trip starts at 11:17 a.m. at the Haselholz depot and stops at Kieler Straße, Platz der Freiheit, …
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 …