Smart UMH: Smart urban multihub concept: Sustainable and liveable cities with low logistics visibility
Description
Cities suffer from too much traffic, leading to congestion, air and noise pollution. Increased e-commerce 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 de-gree of liveability in cities.
Key Data
Projectlead
Deputy Projectlead
Project team
Dr. Stephan Bütikofer, Patrick Doege, Raffael Golomingi, Ferdinand Mikolasch, Viola Rühlin, Jasmin Simona Saxer, Prof. Dr. René Schumann, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stölze, Fabio Thon, Dr. Andreas Weiler, Joel Weingart, Leon Zacharias
Project partners
IKEA; H&M; Zalando; Cargo sous terrain AG; Quickpac AG; MS Direct; Swisslog AG; Stadt Zürich / Tiefbauamt; Kanton Zürich / Amt für Mobilität; Universität St. Gallen; Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale HES-SO
Project status
ongoing, started 09/2022
Funding partner
Innosuisse
Further documents and links
Publications
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Greening urban logistics : introducing a method to evaluate optimised decoupling hub locations
2024 Scherrer, Maike; Steiner, Albert; Rühlin, Viola
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Coopetitive urban logistics to decrease freight traffic and improve urban liveability
2024 Scherrer, Maike
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The effect of coopetition on driving distance in logistics in urban areas
2023 Steiner, Albert; Weingart, Joel Niklas; Huber, Marius; Scherrer, Maike