Dr Anne Goodchild, Director of the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center at the University of Washington, discusses urban logistics and parcel lockers, including:
- What the Urban Freight Lab is and how it works in understanding and testing urban freight solutions
- Seattle Neighbourhood Delivery Hub - providing access to goods in neighbourhood-friendly modes
- Collecting parcels by foot from parcel lockers, residential delivery via cargo bike, mobile lockers, and reducing the distances travelled by delivery vehicles
- Emissions, safety, and pleasantness of neighbourhoods
- Partnerships underpinning the Seattle Neighbourhood Delivery Hub pilot
- Evaluation of the pilot - measurable reduction in miles travelled per parcel
- Collaboration with carriers and local governments
- Understanding impact on infrastructure and economics of last mile delivery
- Ideal area for a cargo bike delivery service to cover
- Can cargo bikes feasibly replace delivery vans?
- Measurable reduction in emissions
- Impact on speed of delivery
- Community response
- Delivering large and bulky items
- Parcel lockers research, evaluating impact on operations, distance travelled, speed of delivery at the point of delivery and impact on curb space
- The importance of data when evaluating the impact of e-commerce delivery on cities, including congestion and emissions
