Heleen Buldeo Rai, assistant professor at VUB, discusses her research into how urban logistics facilities can be good neighbours.
- Warehouses and logistics centres getting closer to the city centre
- What makes NYC an interesting city for studying urban warehouses
- Population density, strength of e-commerce and zoning
- Cross-docking operations in NYC
- Delivery activities happening at the kerb/curb
- Community ignorance of the supply chain
- Friction between local residents and e-commerce logistics
- Best practices for urban warehouses to be good neighbours
- Regulatory frameworks
- Streets accommodating personal mobility as well as delivery vehicles
- The aesthetical aspect of urban warehouses
- Eco transfer concept - consolidating urban parcels and using environmentally-friendly vehicles
- Blocks and buffers
- Organising traffic
- Urban warehouses and cities' sustainability transitions
- Reducing stem distance
