The goal of this project is to work out and validate a versatile and generic logistics concept for optimized city deliveries. Important aspects are smart applications and combinations of logistic modes in addition to providing and utilizing storage and cross-dock capacity (micro warehouses) within the city.
VIL wants to create a model for sustainable as well as economic city logistics that is beneficial to all stakeholders (producers, cities, logistic service providers, traders and citizens). To accomplish this objective, it is important to consider the use of the right transportation modes and their most favorable combinations, the capacity per mode of transport, ideal routes, storage, cross-dock capacity, and the impact on costs and the environment.
Opportunities
The accumulated knowledge, the model and teh roadmap provide opportunities for all inductrial companies involved (shippers, logistic service providers) and the possibility to optimize the supply chains and to build innovative services concerning city logistics.
This project will become a source for the involved stakeholders to organize the distribution of goods in a city environment efficiently, sustainably and socially responsible. The model will support the SULPs (Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans) in which cities, logistic service providers, and producers set the scene for urban logistics. VIL intends to apply the model to multiple cities or municipalities.