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  • New parcel logistics should relieve cities

    New parcel logistics should relieve cities

    A new pilot project by the Swiss innovation agency Innosuisse is testing an alternative distribution system for parcel shipments in Zurich. It is intended to reduce delivery traffic in cities. A media release from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ( ZHAW ) quoted the Federal Office for Spatial Development, according to which the volume of parcels will increase by 75 percent by 2040 due to the growing online trade and the freight traffic will increase by 37 percent as a result.

    The ZHAW Institute for Sustainable Development in Winterthur is leading this project. Companies such as H&M , Zalando and Ikea are involved. In addition to the city of Zurich, the project partners are also Swiss Post , DPD and Cargo Sous Terrain . The desired solution provides for the interaction of three distribution centers, so-called hubs. The project also aims to provide cities with assessment criteria that they can use to find suitable locations.

    “Today every truck drives through town once and distributes the goods. With a hub in the city center, from which the fine distribution takes place, you can bundle much better, ”Maike Scherrer from the ZHAW is quoted as saying. A digital backbone based on artificial intelligence is to organize the shipment allocation to different means of transport in such a way that as few transport kilometers as possible are driven. Free transport capacities can be auctioned online. It is important that the distance to the home address is short so that the parcel recipients can walk to the Microhub as much as possible.

  • Parcel system should reduce delivery traffic

    Parcel system should reduce delivery traffic

    In the pandemic, the already growing online trade continued to grow, write the construction and transport department of the canton of Basel-Stadt , the association Pro Innenstadt Basel and the logistics cluster Region Basel in a joint message . The provider-neutral parcel systems they have developed are intended to remedy this. As part of a pilot project, the first of the so-called Smart Boxes has already been set up on Claraplatz.

    Another smart box is to be set up at St. They want to test the acceptance and effectiveness of the parcel systems by February 2023. "The current pilot project is intended to show how much the offer is being used and how much the daily traffic volume can be reduced with it," said Deborah Strub, chairwoman of the Basel region logistics cluster, quoted in the press release.

    The project is financed by the Office for Mobility of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and the Pro Innenstadt Basel association. “Residents of Basel can conveniently have the parcels they have ordered delivered to the Smart Box Basel, where they can pick them up around the clock,” explains the managing director of the association Mathias F. Böhm. The package systems are manufactured and operated by Huber AG . She has also developed a digital application for using the Smart Boxes.