by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Delivery drones will probably remain a niche solution, but in just a few years, driving delivery robots will be everyday features, both in major cities and rural regions. These are the findings of the 3rd ZF future study, which focuses on “Logistics on the Last Mile“. The Fraunhofer Institute of Material Flow and Logistics (IML) …
Cyber-Monday is the day in which the Unites States consumers massively buy on line. The steady growth of e-commerce has many people worrying that streets will be overwhelmed by delivery trucks ferrying cardboard boxes from warehouses to our homes. Cityobservatory did a ‘fact check’.
DHL released its latest DHL Trend Report: ‘3D Printing and the Future of Supply Chains‘. DHL has been testing a variety of both 3D printing hardware and techniques for several years and has identified applications that have potential to redefine manufacturing and supply chain strategies. While the 3D printing market is estimated to grow between …
The fast growth of cities and the rising number of their users leads to an increase in demand for freight transport contributing to an increase in logistic flow streams within a limited urban area. Currently, freight transport is usually done in an uncoordinated and chaotic manner. Specifying the information needs in the field of urban …
The European Union is working on the further liberalisation of road transport by logistics service providers. The question is whether the further liberalisation of shippers transport on own account would not be more effective and yield better results.
Collaboration is standard practice in many supply chains, yet transaction costs often make it too expensive even so. Countless blog posts talk about the need for collaboration in the transport sector, in wholesale, in retail and with web stores.
Countless books and articles have been written about urban distribution centers, logistics decoupling points, city hubs and urban consolidation centers. Every self-respecting European city has been the scene of such initiatives – the one more successful than the other, but all highly subsidized in any case. What can we learn from those initiatives? The best …
More and more companies are offering their customers delivery options. CoolBlue offers “Ordered today, delivered tonight” service, for example. In the construction sector, it’s: “Ordered today, delivered to the site between 7 and 9 tomorrow morning” – unless you’d rather pick up your package at the pick-up point yourself tonight. Agreed is agreed. Customers expect precision-guided …