Dr Laetitia Dablanc, Professor at the University Gustave Eiffel and head of the Logistics City Chair, discusses recent research she co-authored entitled "Response to COVID-19 lockdowns from urban freight stakeholders". We discuss:
- A survey focusing on labour, traffic, regulations, and any other issues relevant
- Need to adapt to the volatility and variability of e-commerce orders
- Delivering "essential" goods
- Home delivery vs out-of-home delivery, and the challenges of returning to residential delivery in areas where out-of-home dominated
- Productivity issues during lockdown
- Contactless delivery
- Robot delivery
- City plannings failing to integrate logistics into future plans
- Deliveries not transitioning from vans to cargo bikes
- Urban and suburban warehouses
- Urban hubs and local regulations
- Working conditions of gig economy delivery riders
- Precarious workers prepared to work in gig economy
- Speed of delivery and resulting increase in emissions
- Future protections of gig economy delivery workers
