Yesterday I spoke at Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress at the session “How Can We Deliver Sustainable City Logistics”. Fabio Nussio from Rome and me were interviewed by Jordi Casas Juan on our views.
Cities are faced with many challenges. Due to the growth of residents, jobs and tourism, there is increasing pressure on public spaces and the quality of life in the city. It leads to more and more traffic, flows of goods and therefore logistics movements. Vehicle emissions cause poor air quality and global warming. Large and heavy trucks have a major impact if an accident happens to them and put a strain on our assets in public spaces. The bridges and quay walls in Amsterdam are not designed for this. Large trucks have a major impact when they are involved in an accident and destroy our assets in public spaces.
However, logistics is indispensable for supplying our city and collecting our waste. Cities are working to reduce the nuisance of urban logistics by limiting the number of logistics routes, establishing emission zones, implementing weight restrictions.
Meeting this is not easy for many parties in logistics. There is also not one type of logistics: we distinguish between freight transport for construction, catering, retail, facilities, service, parcel delivery, service logistics and waste. All these different types of logistics have their own characteristics. And there are quite a few companies! Every company, large and small, experiences different effects of changes and must adapt to them in its own way. The effects extend deep into the logistics process.
Scarcity of resources, energy, infrastructure, space, and workers makes this not an easy puzzle. To ensure that cities can continue to be supplied, logistics parties and cities must help each other. Technical innovation and the use of data and digitization can and must support this, as became clear in the session.
Finally, I was asked what my vision of the future was for logistics in cities. That was the moment for me to draw attention to the emerging circular economy, which is necessary in terms of sustainability. Circular…. This means other types of collection and flows, flows of goods (no more waste) that will have to be taken care of by logistics companies. That is a rising question for logistics. My question to the companies is to start to have more focus on this. Here too I see that we must seek cooperation.
Many thanks to Jordi Casas Juan for hosting and moderating the session, other panelists Fabio Nussio, Roamy Valera, Ioanna Fergadiotou, Viktoria Kindesjö and Giuseppe Dall'Asta and the co- organizers #firabarcelona & #eiturbanmobility and Smart City Expo World Congress.
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Environment, Health and Safety Region Head at Mitsubishi Elevator India Pvt. Ltd.
4wLooking forward to this!