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Only with loading to 95% the trucks would reduce in roughly 50% the number of them that go in and go out of a big city each day

DHL Gives the keys of the logistics for intelligent cities by means of his project 'City logistics'

Editorial Interempresas25/07/2012

According to the last data stirred by DHL, today, 80% of the European citizens lives in cities and, in the year 2020, 3 of each 5 inhabitants of the world will live in a big city. This perspective of growth joined to the consolidation of the e-commerce like option of consumption with future elder, configure a new stage where the urban logistics has to evolve to be sustainable, especially when we split that 40% of the polución originated today by the global transport proceeds of the urban distribution.

As it explains Santiago Blasco, responsible of New Products and Services Retail of DHL Supply Chain Spain, “the problems associated with the congestion in the traffic that generates the distribution of commodities in the urban surroundings and the importance of the problems associated, such as the acoustic and environingingmental pollution, the reduction of the hygiene vial and of the quality of life, will cost roughly 1% of the GDP in the next years and are the main reason so that the local authorities propose the set up of rules to a rationalisation and better regulation of the traffic in the field of his competitions”.

DHL Works in favour of an urban distribution of efficient commodities.

DHL Supply Chain Proposes the model ‘City Logistics' as an approach proactivo to the innovation through the introduction of new technologies and the definition of models optimised of urban distribution to improve the gestión of the flows that generates the distribution in the urban surroundings.

The proposal of value of DHL Supply Chain contributes direct improvements. Some examples stirred by the company: increase of the current 40% of half load with that go out the trucks of distribution to near of 95%, would reduce in roughly 50% the number of trucks that go in and go out of a big city each day. This consolidation of the load, beside the utilisation of hybrid vehicles could suppose a daily reduction of 70% of the atmospheric and acoustic pollution that bears of this big city.

Spain begins to invest in intelligent logistics

A clear bet by the sustainability and the innovation has done to DHL Supply Chain involve in diverse strategic initiatives in Spain in favour of an urban distribution of efficient commodities. Projects that participate of the collaboration publish-private and that pretend to transmit the social responsibility that has the company to contribute to the market solve sustainable and of reference between the logistics operators.

This activity pipes through projects of cooperation in which DHL Supply Chain has the support of the European Commission and the bottoms of R&D of the Seventh Program Mark like instrument of support to the risk in the investment for the innovation and generation of know-how pre-competitive. From the year 2011, DHL Supply Chain advises and contributes solutions of optimisation in the urban distribution of commodities to Spanish cities as it is the case of Vitoria-gasteiz (European green Capital 2012, Forum Civitas 2012), or L'Hospitalet de Llobregat in Barcelona by means of the development of a pilot of logistical consolidation in the frame of the European project Straightsol (www.straightsol.eu). In the field of the mobility of the citizen, DHL Supply Chain develops at present an analysis on new applications for smartphones beside other technological partners in the European project Instant Mobility (http://instant-mobility.com).

This important local bet is mirror in Spain of the strategy 2015 with which the group Deutsche Post – DHL has defined a route to the development of innovative and sustainable solutions for the intelligent cities (smart cities) as it is the case the already implemented in Dubai, Mexico DC or Singapore to scale global.