Urban road freight poses challenges ranging from congestion of inner city streets to air pollution from heavy goods vehicles, and initiatives like City Logistics are working to tackle these while cutting logistics costs and improving road freight delivery times. One solution that is gaining traction is the use of Urban Consolidation Centres, or UCCs, which […]
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The UK has come out on top in a comparison between British sustainable urban logistics activity and that which takes place in Scandinavian countries. Karin Fossheim and Jardar Andersen of the Institute of Transport Economics in Oslo, Norway, undertook a literature review of studies into sustainable urban logistics in Scandinavia and the UK for the
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With the Millennial generation reaching their peak years of spending and e-commerce continuing to transform the retail industry’s logistics demands, global bank Citi and the Oxford Martin School have published a report that predicts warehousing could look to the vertical to make the most of inner city real estate. In the report, they note that
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A joined-up approach to logistics is at the core of 4PL services, and has particular relevance in urban environments, where access may be restricted to certain times of day, or where other concerns like congestion and air pollution may be on the minds of hauliers. One approach that aims to tackle all of the challenges
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