Delivering to future cities - Mega trends driving urban logistics

Frost & Sullivan
January 2013

Over the past two decades delivering goods into the cities has become a challenge with cities getting overly congested and traffic jams resulting in expensive logistics bottlenecks. In fact, studies show that the cost of congestion now in terms of time wasted in traffic and fuel consumption is off the roof, almost 200% more than what it was in the 1980s. And congestion is only a part of the urban delivery problem. Pollution, lack of parking bays, and warehousing costs are all restraints that are contributing to the economic cost of urban logistics.

There is already a paradigm shift in how products are being manufactured (3D printing) and retailed (transition to online channels) today and the common denominator, supply chain, at all stages of a product's lifecycle must quickly adapt to the changes as well. While it will take another decade or so for 3D printing to become mainstream, the growing market of online retail has already significantly impacted the industry. In order to understand these shifts, it is important to understand the megatrends that directly influence them.

Mega trends and Urban Logistics

We see four main Mega trends that will impact urban logistics - urbanisation, connectivity and convergence, bricks and clicks and multimodality (high speed rail).

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Urban Freight in Developing Cities

Bernhard O. Herzog
SUTP
November 2010

This new GTZ Sourcebook module describes the importance of freight transportation in the context of urban development and provides detailed information on available options to meet current and future challenges for urban goods transport in rapidly growing cities of the developing world.

The module has been written by Bernhard O. Herzog, expert in the field of freight operation and fleet-management with more than 30 years experience in the field of transport planning and logistics.

The publication contains 62 fully illustrated pages 51 figures, 19 boxes and 8 tables. Additionally it provides further reading and links on additional aspects of urban freight.

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Plataformas logísticas: elementos conceptuales y rol del sector público

CEPAL
Boletín Fal
Facilitación del comercio y el transporte en América Latina y el Caribe
Edición No 274, Número 6 /2009

El desarrollo portuario y en particular, el desarrollo de plataformas logísticas han sido un elemento crucial para enfrentar la creciente integración comercial. El acceso a un hinterland cada vez más grande y competitivo ha exigido como condición necesaria mayor y mejor integración de a lo menos el modo marítimo con el carretero, y en los casos donde los volúmenes y el tipo de tráfico lo requiere, el ferroviario. En este contexto, el presente Boletín FAL de los autores Erick Leal y Gabriel Pérez Salas, tiene como objetivo entregar algunos elementos conceptuales y prácticos que permitan una primera aproximación acerca de las condiciones necesarias para una implementación exitosa de plataformas logísticas y en particular analizar el rol del sector público en el desarrollo de la logística nacional. Dicho propósito tiene especial relevancia considerando el enorme interés que existe en el sector privado en desarrollar este tipo de infraestructuras, habida cuenta del retraso relativo que la región presenta tanto en la dotación de infraestructura como en servicios de transporte y logísticos competitivos.

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