by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Road transport, shippers, and energy groups in Europe have called for carbon-neutral fuels to be recognized as a long-term decarbonization solution, alongside electrification and hydrogen, for a well-functioning and stable EU logistics sector. In a joint letter sent today to EU Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans, IRU, the European Shippers’ Council, and FuelsEurope – representing road …
The economics of decarbonizing fleets are demonstrably viable. Now commercial transport operators need to identify the best way to capture value. McKinsey reports about it based on US data. These segment-specific dynamics are reflected in McKinsey’s financial projections. On a TCO basis, light-commercial vehicles LCVs are already “in the money,” and they expect medium-duty trucks …
Little progress has been made in recent years toward achieving a fully circular economy by 2050 and halving abiotic resource use (abiotic means non-living and is used to refer to the part of habitat or ecosystems that is not living) by 2030. The use of most resources did not decrease. Only fossil fuel use decreased, …
Barcelona approved a total ban on dark stores (distribution hubs used by companies that provide grocery home deliveries), joining other European cities such as Amsterdam that announced restrictions in 2022. Reuters reports about it. Dark stores are like retail shops but without on-site sales, just deliveries from them. Quick commerce delivery services expanded across Europe …
Is energy the new gold for real estate companies? In conversations about city logistics real estate development, developers often see charging demand for electric vehicles as a chore. It’s inconvenient, takes a long time, and you don’t have a clue. But the charging infrastructure has to get there. And fortunately, many market players are willing …
Logistics real estate company WDP saw its property values rise in the first nine months of the year, but these were completely wiped out by a significant €407 mln write-downs in the fourth quarter of 2022. WDP’s write-downs showed that the real estate market changed completely in the fourth quarter of 2022. Higher financing costs …
A toolkit is online to support decision-makers in planning and implementing Urban Vehicle Access Regulations (UVARs). The CIVITAS project ReVeAL aims to help cities in their journey towards people-centered urban spaces by giving urban road space back to people and sustainable mobility. This toolkit was developed and tested within the 6 ReVeAL city pilots during the project’s three and a …
The project SENATOR aims to create a new urban logistic model to enhance cities’ sustainability.For this purpose, the project will develop a smart network operator as a control tower supported on an ICT Platform that will work as a support tool for decision-making, integration, and planning of all logistics operations. Consequently, it will minimize the …
A new paper by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the cost-effectiveness of different CO2 reduction strategies for the heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) sector. It examines the required HDV technology market share to meet mandated CO2 reduction targets and the corresponding decarbonization cost. The report also proposes HDV CO2 reduction targets up to 2040. The …
Efficient electronic waste (e-waste) management is one of the strategies to save materials, critical minerals, and precious metals with limited global reserves. The e-waste collection issue has gained attention in recent years due to low collection rates of e-waste. Shevchenko et al. (2021) aim to search for solutions in the e-waste collection sphere with close-to-zero transport and …