Freight vehicles account for 15-20% of traffic in cities. Growing e-commerce is leading to strong growth in urban freight movements, with 80% consisting of light commercial vehicles. This creates problems like increased emissions, congestion, noise, and safety issues. Research on an area of Amsterdam found around 2,000 shipments per day from 1,000 trucks and light commercial vehicles serving businesses like hospitality, construction, retail, and waste management. Solutions require an integrated approach combining technology, logistics, and policies to make urban freight transportation clean, safe, and efficient.

1. Urban freight:
15-20% of traffic in cities
Walther Ploos van Amstel
Lector Citylogistiek – September 2017
Hogeschool van Amsterdam

2. Problems?

3. Solutions?
• Changing customer demands
• Facts
• Solutions
• The Amsterdam approach
• Smart mobility
• Take away’s

4. Growing urban freight:
precision-guide logistics

5. Leading to strong growth of urban
freight movements: 80% is LCV
• Public space
• Emissions
• Congestion
• Noise
• Safety

6. In freight:
35% CO2 related to city logistics

7. Recent Dutch data:
0,16% e-mobility

8. Research:
Amsterdam Oude Pijp area
• 800 x 800 meters
• 15.000 residents
• 1.000 companies
• 2.000 shipments
• 1.000 trucks/LCV’s
• HoReCa, construction, retail,
waste and parcel

9. Address intelligence

10. Robotisation in the supply chain

11. Clean air zones

12. Zero emission transport modes

13. Smarter planning

14. City hubs: PPP

15. Sense and respond

16. Safety: vision zero

17. Last mile solutions

18. Solutions: integrated approach
Technology
Logistics
Policy/
community

19. Strategy
Results
Network
Planning and
control
ICT
Organisation
National and EU policies
Local policies
INFRASTRUCTURE

20. Slow versus personalised
20
‘Slow mobility’
Bundling
Ecocombi/Synchro
Platoons
Push
Open data
‘Personalised mobility’
Value of time
Clean
Safe
Pull
Open data

21. Strategy
Results
Network
Planning and
control
ICT
Organisation
National and EU policies
Local policies
Infrastructure
Collaborative control

22. Strategy
Results
Network
Planning and
control
ICT
Organisation
National and EU policies
Local policies
Infrastructure
Collaborative control
Social innovation

23. Social innovation:
creating value of time together
• Strategic collaboration: shippers,
transporters, truck and trailer
builders and government
• Planner 2.0: align planning
operational and tactical
• The truck driver of the future
• Experiment: train as you fight…

24. Citylogistics Amsterdam
• Pedestrians and bicyclist first
• Large volumes: construction logistics
• Collaboration in deliveries and waste
• Public procurement
• Light electric vehicles
• Dynamic allocation of loading zones
• Local traffic data

25. Collaboration public-private

27. Practice what you preach

28. Urban mobility from…
• Push to pull: customers in control
• Unimodal to synchromodal
• Fossil to alternative fuel
• Ownership to sharing
• Closed data to open data
• Physical links to Internet Of Things
• Centralised to distributed planning
• Forecast ETA to real time info
• Blind to clairvoyant
• From private to public private

29. What’s wrong with this picture?

30. Take away’s