HANDS FREEThe last mile challengeOPPORTUNTIES FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

WALTHER PLOOS VAN AMSTEL – AUAS – MAY 2019

Hands free last mile logistics:EU market 400.000-800.000 vehicles p.a.

Challenges in city logistics

Future last mile networks

Potential for autonomous vehicles

Adapting our cities

City logistics:

Parcels is less than 5 percent

Growing urban freight:

precision-guide logistics

Challenges in urban logistics

Space

Congestion

Emissions (CO2 and air pollution)

Noise

Safety

Damage

Cost-to-serve

Staffing

Strategy

Results

Network

Planning and

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ICT

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INFRASTRUCTURE

Slow versus personalised

‘Slow mobility’

Bundling

Ecocombi/Synchro

Platoons

Push

Open data

‘Personalised mobility’

Value of time

Clean

Safe

Pull

Open data

Autonomous vehicles

Autonomous vehicles

Autonomous vehicles

Autonomous vehicles

Autonomous vehicles

Strategy

Results

Network

Planning and

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ICT

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Infrastructure

Collaborative control

Collaborative control:

hubs, moving, unloading

Strategy

Results

Network

Planning and

control

ICT

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Infrastructure

Collaborative control

Social innovation

Future urban planning

Train as you fight

Smart vehicles

Regulation

Smart charging and hubs

Physical internet:

containerization

Last: putting customers first!