Cooperative and Interconnected Green delivery solutions towards an era of optimized zero emission last-mile Logistics

Green-Log accelerates systemic changes in last mile delivery ecosystems for economically, environmentally and socially sustainable city logistics. The project establishes city platforms comprising of inclusive stakeholder Urban Living Labs for nurturing social innovation, designing and deploying innovative delivery solutions while allowing the most effective exchange of ideas, the development of robust, harmonized regulatory and policy frameworks, and cooperative business models that build upon effective public/private-sector collaboration and joint investments.

The Green-Log approach provides an innovative simulation environment for scenario building combining different solutions that allow the integration of last-mile delivery interventions with the highest possible impact on environmental sustainability and traffic reduction, while considering their financial viability.

On the operational level, Green-Log provides cargo-bike based innovations for sustainable micro-consolidation design and deployments, multimodal parcel deliveries integrating public transportation, Logistic as a Service platforms for interconnected city logistics and automated delivery concepts with the use of autonomous vehicles and delivery droids.

The solutions are supported by interconnected city logistics dataspaces that feed dynamic services for proactive optimization of the ecosystem, respecting the interests of consumers, businesses and city stakeholders. The approach is deployed and validated in five cities and areas: Athens, Barcelona, Flanders, Oxfordshire and Ispra.

Special focus is given on the transferability of the proposed innovation, starting from three follower cities with high interests in tailoring and replicating the Green-Log solutions, and continuing with a pan-European outreach with intensive transfearability accelaration actions, setting the ground for the establishment of multiple city logistics Urban Living Labs.

Our Role

A central contribution to Green-Log involves the development of two out of three web applications: The Logistics as a Service (LaaS) Marketplace and a Digital Control Tower (DCT) both of which are designed to tackle the challenges that urban logistics ecosystems face. Methodology followed for building both digital solutions based on user-centered design principles. Techniques such as user-story mapping and interactive mock-ups leading to iterative prototyping are used to verify that the solutions meet the demands of its users. This occurred using continual validation cycles which results in user-friendly interfaces and appropriate functions. The result is a collection of tools that are not only technically sound, but also designed to assist efficient, adaptable, and environmentally conscientious last-mile logistics in real-world scenarios.

Our Green-Log Solutions at a glance

Logistics as a Seervice (Laas) Marketplace

The LaaS Marketplace is a platform tailored to urban ecosystems that bridges the gap between Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) and businesses and consumers. It offers seamless operations emphasizing efficiency, sustainability and transparency. Due to its multitenancy design, features tailored to each role have been developed providing functionalities among others:

1. Setting page per role: Users can declare information that concern their profile indicating information that is related to their preferences regarding the LSPs services and conventiently the LSPs to provide their services to be consumed
   

2. Get a Quote: Within this feature the demand side provides information about the shipment to be picked-up or delivered and receives options based on the available LSPs incorporated with dynamic pricing mechanism that is made to lowering the operational cost (lessen driven Kms) and awarding them for their sustainability choice via credits.

   
   

Additional functionalities enable users to engage in real-time communication linking supply and demand, update manual track and trace events and maintain a comprehensive overview of their shipments state. This setup unifies diverse stakeholders by enabling their effective communication through the LaaS Marketplace platform

Digital Control Tower

The DCT complements this by offering a centralized, real-time decision-making environment. Its features are tailored to meet user needs and include:

1. Predictive Analytics and Demand Forecasting: By providing accurate, near real-time predictions for both road network traffic and logistics service needs, the NFE addresses traffic congestion and shifting logistical needs in metropolitan contexts.
   

   

2. Multi-Modal Dynamic Routing and Optimization: The routing engine, an API-driven tool in charge of computing the best and sustainable delivery pathways, controls routing activities inside the DCT

   

3. Sustainable decisions and incentives imposed through policy constraints: to translate environmental policy into practical logistical choices via an integrated sustainability incentive system is among its most original features. 
   

   

GreenLog Facts & Figures

• Project name: Cooperative and Interconnected Green delivery solutions towards an era of optimized zero emission last-mile Logistics

• Grant Agreement No: 101069892

• Topic: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-08

• Duration: 1/01/2023 – 30/06/2026

• EC Contribution: € 6 260 158
  

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