Changing Delivery to Make London Air Safe
Alan Barrie, Senior Advisor for E-Commerce and Urban Logistics at Transport for London, talks about how changes to delivery can improve air quality:
- Overview of the types of vehicles on London’s streets
- TfL’s responsibilities
- The effect of London’s congestion charge
- What the ULEZ (ultra low emission zone) means for the delivery sector
- Reducing emissions and improving efficiencies in the last mile
- Consumer-centric delivery solutions
- The UK’s fractured PUDO networks
- Parcel locker networks – open vs closed
- Merchants’ role in striving for the most sustainable delivery options
- Failed first-time residential deliveries – and the alternatives to home delivery
- Alternatively powered vehicles (including electric vehicles, bikes, cargo bikes)
- Micro delivery depots
- Courier safety in the last mile
- City logistics
- B2B deliveries
- Same-day delivery and its environmental impact
- Road safety
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