by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Imagine a city where delivery trucks no longer clog your streets, where parcels, retail goods, and logistics freight glide silently through underground corridors, arriving on time, every time, without a single exhaust pipe in sight. It sounds futuristic, but a new review published in Smart Cities (2026) suggests this vision is closer to reality than …
Some innovations change the world. Others mainly change the way we think about the future. Hardt Hyperloop, declared bankrupt this week, probably belongs to that second category. Yet that does not mean its significance for logistics and transport has disappeared. Over the past years, Hardt worked step by step on that idea. In Veendam, a …
Walther Ploos van Amstel, Bram Kin, Hans Quak, Nilesh Anand, and Ron van Duin are proud to present their latest book chapter, ‘Sustainable city logistics‘, which provides a literature overview of modalities in city logistics. Cities are rapidly moving from van- and truck-dominated freight toward multimodal, low-emission logistics systems. Alongside electric vans and trucks, previously …
With their new paper “Logistics, vital function” (La logistique, fonction vitale), the French institute IAU wishes to sensitize the local actors of the future development in line with the overall regional objectives of “Île-de-France 2030“.