Challange 1

How to reduce the impacts of products transportation inside the city and among the inhabitants?

Urban logistics are gaining importance as more and more people live in towns and cities, and because they are increasingly placing orders on the internet. Innovative solutions must make it possible to efficiently organize logistics in urban areas.

Challenge context

Logistics is essential to any business because it aims to meet the demands of its customers.

Today our urban environment faces many challenges which are responsible for the traffic congestion in the city:

• An increase in the population
• An increase in the number of sales outlets
• Major efforts to increase inventory turnover
• The multiplication of references in stores reducing the storage capacity
• The development of e-commerce
• Direct deliveries to private individuals

These factors lead to many negative consequences including: pollution, noise, quality of life for city dwellers, etc.

Challenge description

Faced with this situation, it is necessary to rethink how items in cities are delivered. Lausanne is looking for solutions and measures to improve the comfort of its residents and the environmental nuisances.

Instructions to participants:

• Participants determine the needs and constraints of urban logistics in Lausanne ;
• Participants propose solutions allowing a better efficiency of the logistics chain and a reduction of the nuisances ;
• The behavior change aspect does not have to be addressed. The challenge is focused on infrastructures and technical solutions ;
• The solutions will include 2 aspects: 1. Purchases made on the internet (e-commerce) that are more and more frequent, and their delivery. 2. Purchases made in urban areas (in shops, etc.) and transported to the homes of the purchasers.
• Participants highlight what could be done by the private sector and what, eventually, is the responsability of the public sector to facilitate or frame the transition towards a more efficient logistics (accompanying measures, management of the public space, regulation of developement, infrastructures, etc.).
• Finally, the ensure that the proposed measures are energy efficient.

Useful material for participants:

https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01727795/document

https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/246581/1/Kurzversion_LMS%202016_FRZ.pdf

https://www.fti.geneva.ch/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170703_CR_atelier_GenieN2_EXT_v.pdf