Reducing city logistics footprint through collaborative cityhubs

City logistics is under attack with more car-free residential areas, congested inner cities, and pedestrianized campuses. In the next years, logistics service providers must deliver more volume with fewer vehicles, safer and cleaner. Logistics service providers should plan city logistics routes carefully, considering local regulations, zero-emission zones, road closures, times windows, loading and unloading points, road safety, and weight restrictions. When can it be done with a large truck or a small van? And when with a cargo bike or even a barge? City logistics today is precision logistics.

City logistics hubs: sharing is caring

City logistics hubs offer a solution where efficient and sustainable bulk deliveries from factories, container terminals, and distribution centers to the region are done with ‘slow mobility’ (and why not by water?) and transferred to just-in-time deliveries that are precisely tailored to the demands of the customer in the city; the consumer, the construction site, the office, the retail store and HoReCa.

Sharing is caring. Shippers and logistics service providers will work closely in future city logistics hubs. The partners in the city logistics hubs add value in unpacking, installation, returns, stock keeping, the zero-emission ‘last mile’ to the customers, and smart charging. Economy of scale is a prerequisite for successful collaboration.