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LEAD - Low-Emission Adaptive last mile logistics supporting ‘on Demand economy’ through digital twins

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  • Project Summary, Objectives and Expected Impacts

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    LEAD will create Digital Twins of urban logistics networks in six cities in TEN-T urban Nodes, namely Madrid (Spain), The Hague (the Netherlands), Budapest (Hungary), Lyon (France), Oslo (Norway) and Porto (Portugal).

    These will test and represent different innovative solutions for city logistics to address the requirements of the on-demand economy, while aligning competing interests and creating value for all different stakeholders in a public-private setting.

    Each value case will allow for the development of solutions for shared, connected, and low-emission logistics operations, empowered by an adaptive modelling approach and the Digital Twin models. Agent-based models will be used to enable logistics stakeholders to recognise their roles and business models, including relevant operational, tactical, and strategic decisions in the Digital Twin, mirroring value cases in city life.

    The long-term vision of LEAD is to design an open, physical internet-inspired framework for smart city logistics that incorporates the created Digital Twins, laying the foundations for the development of large-scale city Digital Twins.

    The main results of LEAD will be:

    • Value cases co-design: LEAD will develop a contextual framework to support the design and implementation of cost-effective sustainable integrated city logistics systems, by involving stakeholders in the co-creation of innovative last mile solutions and services that address the needs of the on-demand economy.

    • Digital Twinning Tools: LEAD will design and develop a simulation-based impact assessment environment and a Digital Twin Model, for evaluating alternative city logistics strategies, measuring the impact of interventions and supporting well informed data-driven decision and policy making.

    • Validation in Living Labs: LEAD will demonstrate and validate project concepts and tools in six intervention areas (Madrid, The Hague, Lyon, Budapest, Oslo, Porto), with heterogeneous urban, social and governance conditions and logistics profiles, representative of the European diversity, involving all actors in exploring combinations of different measures toward implementing optimal logistics solutions.

    • Scale-up: LEAD will formulate a Roadmap towards PI-inspired zero emission city logistics consolidating project experiences from the Living Labs, accelerate take-up of sustainable solutions through stakeholder engagement and capacity building and provide practical guidelines on the use of LEAD tools and Digital Twins in SUMPs and SULPs process steps.

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  • LIVING LABS

    • Madrid - The Living Lab will explore:

      1. Efficiencies in using a UCC connected to the TEN-T to transfer cargo with EDVs and deliver to the city centre. The added value of using mini consolidation centres or lockers within Madrid Central to manage increased return shipments and the combination of both.
      2. The impact on vehicle flows and congestion before and after introducing the UCC and the EDVs. Using the route optimisation engine in many-to-many and many-to-one scenarios, combining vehicles of different fleets. Assessing the improvement of environmental indicators.
      3. Alternative business models in terms of ownership of the consolidation centres, required agreements among different companies, PPPs,
      4. The possibility of using Blockchain technology for smart contracts,
      5. Cooperation mechanisms between public and private sector stakeholders (shippers, courier companies, retailers, municipalities) to ensure a sustainable model. Surveys and interviews to different players aimed at identifying new ideas for cooperation and evaluating the costs and benefits of implementation. The what-if scenarios will consider several disruptive business models such as the possibility of involving cycle logistics cooperatives and NGOs for last mile delivery. The ownership, management and regulation of the consolidation centre, mini centres and lockers will be defined as a clear innovation of the pilot,
      6. The economic efficiency and reliability for courier companies, and for clients, of using the LEAD strategies compared to conventional freight delivery approaches. The impact of alternative strategies for the clients in terms of cost and reliability. The social impacts for employees and retailer,
      7. Economic incentives, e.g. dynamic pricing for parking spaces.


      Budapest - The Living Lab will explore:

      1. Advantages of using UCCs for serving a certain area (package delivery, general UFT). Different locations for centres (along TEN-T corridor, suburbs, city centre),
      2. Use of Digital Twin with existing macroscopic transport model (model development, data collection, matrix development) for the improved assessment of UFT (freight transport, package delivery, consolidation centres),
      3. Impacts of consolidation centres on air quality,
      4. Assessment of inner-city UFT demand and practice, suggestion for policy refinement in certain cases (e.g. off-peak hour deliveries, development of loading area policy and regulation, establishment and usage, based on citizen and user demands and needs),
      5. Development and assessment of loading area policy and regulation, establishment and usage, based on citizen and user demands and needs,
      6. Optimal distance of UCCs from the endpoint of delivery,
      7. Impact of freight vehicles from UCCs on the environment/traffic, depending on vehicle size.


      Lyon - The Living Lab will explore:

      1. Developing the Digital Twin as a decision support tool for local urban delivery policy and assessment of innovative delivery models,
      2. Developing and deploying algorithms for planning and performing dynamic delivery services,
      3. Collaborating with local stakeholders/start-ups (EDVs, AVs) as well as Citizen involvement,
      4. Interaction with the urban mobility smart city plans of Confluence and Grand Lyon Métropole,
      5. Designing and testing an urban delivery service with delivery robots,
      6. Novel business models involving state-of-the-art collaboration platforms.


      Porto - The Living Lab will explore:

      1. The optimisation of delivery routes for EDV’s, taking into consideration the potential grid of EDV charging stations,
      2. EDV’s take-up projections if the grid enables mass adoption,
      3. The development of new business models (e.g. dynamic pricing, incentives research, cost optimisation, demand forecast, emissions and supply planning) targeting reduction by 25% in CO2 emissions by 10% in costs per km,
      4. Leveraging Sonae’s digital platform to capture additional e-commerce growth, with new services to consumers,
      5. Last Mile optimisation for e-commerce deliveries based on PI principles.


      The Hague - The Living Lab will explore:

      1. The potential of integrating crowdsourcing in last mile urban deliveries,
      2. Whether crowdsourced delivery is an answer to the growing expectations of customers for a faster, more personalised and cost-efficient delivery service
      3. Business models, challenges and success factors for new players in the industry,
      4. New digital service platforms with algorithms that allow the interconnection of crowdsourcing services.

       

      Oslo - The Living Lab will explore:

      1. Business models financially viable and beneficial from a social/environmental perspective,
      2. Senders’/Bringers’/Receivers’ preferences for alternative delivery services,
      3. The interplay between demand and relevant supply design of crowdshipping services,
      4. The role for parcel lockers to enhance bringers pick up/drop off flexibility,
      5. The economic, financial, and environmental potential for a green crowdshipping service

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