by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Waste collection is an important volume in city logistics today. In the LEVV-LOGIC project the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (NL) performed research on waste and the potential use of light commercial vehicles for waste collection in cities.
The field of city logistics can be characterised by its many local demonstrations and trials, that are quite often not lasting longer than the trial period. The number of demonstrations that continued and were implemented in daily practice is limited. Freight partnerships proved to be a good first step to engage stakeholders.
The AUAS en UVA started a logistic hub, to realise sustainable and smart supply of 80 college buildings in Amsterdam. The AUAS and UvA have a tremendous amount of goods and services delivered. The two educational institutions, which have combined the purchasing of goods and services in a single purchasing organisation, deal with a total of around …
A trial of a fully autonomous electric-powered vehicle (Cargopod) conducting last-mile deliveries for Ocado in Greenwich (UK) ended this month. The vehicle has delivered groceries to more than 100 customers so far. Read more at Freight in the City.
For more than four years, the FREVUE partners have been exposing Electric Freight Vehicles (EFV) to the day-to-day rigours of urban logistics in eight of Europe’s largest cities. As the project comes to a close, the FREVUE final conference took place in London on the 21st June 2017 and brought together representatives from industry, research …
Over 110 innovative solutions for decarbonising EU transport were submitted for the European Transport Innovation Challenge 2017. The 12 winners offered solutions in a wide range of transport applications; futuristic systems for moving people and freight in cities, services for people with reduced mobility and emergency services, a robot platform, parking, railway and cycling.
Nowadays, mobility is a major issue in our cities. It is therefore no doubt that Light Electric Vehicles have a crucial role in the development of future cleaner and smarter cities. However, while they are clearly a lot of activities related to light electric vehicles happening all around the world, there are still many questions …
Smart or green freight refers to the transformation efforts of the freight and logistics sector that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants and improve fuel efficiency across the global logistics supply chain, whilst maintaining competitiveness and economic growth. Smart freight, green freight and sustainable freight/logistics are in practice used interchangeably.
The SPICE project aims to collect and disseminate the best practices in innovative procurement for transport and mobility projects in Europe. The best practices report presents 11 cases of innovation procurements in the transport sector from various countries in Europe. These cases cover a wide range of topics in four categories: Alternatively fuelled vehicles Intelligent Transport Systems …
The Novelog Toolkit enables the user to identify city logistics measures and their impacts (as recorded in various initiatives) based on a set of parameters. To use this tool you can select any suitable parameters and press “search” to see the list of measures and impacts implemented in cities with the same parameters.