Smart UMH: Smart urban multihub concept: Sustainable and liveable cities with low logistics visibility
At a glance
- Project leader : Prof. Dr. Maike Scherrer
- Deputy of project leader : Albert Steiner
- Project team : Stephan Bütikofer, Patrick Doege, Raffael Golomingi, Marius Huber, Viola Rühlin, Prof. Dr. René Schumann, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stölze, Andreas Weiler, Joel Niklas Weingart, Leon Zacharias
- Project status : ongoing
- Funding partner : Innosuisse
- Project partner : IKEA, H&M, Zalando, Cargo sous terrain AG, Quickpac AG, MS Direct, Swisslog AG, Stadt Zürich / Tiefbauamt, Kanton Zürich / Amt für Mobilität , Universität St. Gallen, Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale HES-SO
- Contact person : Maike Scherrer
Description
Cities suffer from too much traffic, leading to congestion, air and noise pollution. Increased e-commerce popularity intensifies these challenges further. The Covid crisis has proven that our urban logistics systems are neither reliable, resilient, nor sustainable. Our objective is to develop a future urban logistics concept that is sustainable, resilient, city-friendly, and that reduces the increasing freight traffic in cities, focussing on parcel and other goods deliveries and returns, while increasing the quality of life for city residents.
We introduce a coopetitive approach, where competitors naturally cooperate in a smart urban multihub (UMH) and deliver in a white-label approach to decoupling points between customers and suppliers. This increases logistics efficiency through bundling activities, while leading to reduced costs, reduced vehicle-kilometres driven and CO2 emission savings, and increased social sustainability through higher de-gree of liveability in cities.
Further information
Publications
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Steiner, Albert; Weingart, Joel Niklas; Huber, Marius; Scherrer, Maike,
2023.
The effect of coopetition on driving distance in logistics in urban areas [poster].
In:
5th VREF Conference on Urban Freight, Gotenburg, Sweden, 18-20 October 2023.
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2023.
Coopetitive urban logistics to decrease freight traffic and improve urban liveability
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In:
Sarkis, Joseph, ed.,
The Palgrave Handbook of Supply Chain Management.
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan.
pp. 1-22.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89822-9_4-1
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Scherrer, Maike; Steiner, Albert; Rühlin, Viola,
2023.
Greening urban logistics : introducing a method to evaluate optimised decoupling hub locations [paper].
In:
Transportation Research Procedia.
9th Transport Research Arena (TRA), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 November 2022.
Elsevier.
pp. 572-579.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.441