Cities suffer from too much traffic, leading to congestion, air and noise pollution. Increased e-com-merce popularity intensifies these challenges further. The Covid crisis has proven that our urban logistics systems are neither reliable, resilient, nor sustainable.
Our objective is to develop a future urban logistics concept that is sustainable, resilient, city-friendly, and that reduces the increasing freight traffic in cities, focussing on parcel and other goods deliveries and returns, while increasing the quality of life for city residents. We introduce a coopetitive approach, where competitors naturally cooperate in a smart urban multihub (UMH) and deliver in a white-label approach to decoupling points between customers and suppliers. This increases logistics efficiency through bundling activities, while leading to reduced costs, reduced vehicle-kilometres driven and CO2 emission savings, and increased social sustainability through higher degree of liveability in cities. http://wsb.smart-umh.ch/index.html
Duration: 2024-2026
Innosuisse – Schweizerische Agentur für Innovationsförderung
ZHAW-INE
ZHAW-IDP
ZHAW-InIT
HES-SO
University of Klagenfurt
Ikea
H&M
Planzer
Cargo Sous Terrain
City of Zurich (TAZ)
Research Associate