The FTC2050 project aimed to identify and evaluate urban freight logistics initiatives that may have the greatest impact on reducing fuel consumption and energy requirements.
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A fundamental ambition of the FTC2050 project was to investigate the potential impact of carriers working together to reduce their combined carbon footprint.
The FTC2050 project investigated the use of porters for the ‘last-200m’ delivery of parcels, reducing the need for vans by decoupling the motorised transport from the delivery.
Retailers, couriers and customers can reduce the carbon footprint of deliveries by adopting greener delivery strategies
The practical application and policy impact of the FTC2050 project
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Fast, Green & Free Deliveries – Overcoming the last mile challenge in urban transport University of Liverpool in London, 25 June 2019
Transforming the energy demands of last-mile urban freight through collaborative logistics
The FTC2050 project assessed current last-mile delivery operations through carrier surveys, interviews and literature review, mainly focusing on parcel deliveries in central London.
Collaboration between parcel carriers is seldom seen as they compete with each other for business. This leads to all going everywhere with associated issues of traffic congestion, journey time unreliability, difficulty in finding parking and added fuel consumption and vehicle emissions.
The FTC2050 project investigated opportunities for collaboration to address these issues.
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Parcel delivery vans are typically parked on-street for around 65% of the time spent in central London as drivers deliver and collect items.
This inspired the FTC2050 project to investigate portering options.
Point to point (A2B) couriers may work more efficiently by adopting a waiting strategy before assigning delivery jobs.
Parcel carrier data provide a wealth of information about vehicle use that could potentially be of interest to transport planners and researchers.
The FTC2050 project investigated ways of visualising the data.