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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