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
The FTC2050 project assessed current last-mile delivery operations through carrier surveys, interviews and literature review, mainly focusing on parcel deliveries in central London.
The UK parcels market has two main operating models: hub-and-spoke and point-to-point.
The hub-and-spoke model handles by far the greatest parcel volumes and has traditionally been used for non-urgent (next-day or longer) deliveries. Same-day deliveries are becoming more common but are far less energy-efficient often requiring pickup and delivery of single items
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were sent in the UK in 2017-18 generating revenues of £9.4 billion, excluding same-day parcels (Ofcom, 2018).
Business-to-consumer (B2C) accounts for two in every three parcels sent and growing faster (volume and revenue) than business-to-business (B2B) (Royal Mail Group, 2018)
Ofcom (2018) Annual monitoring update on the postal market, Financial year 2017-18, Ofcom.
Royal Mail plc (2018) Annual Report and Financial Statements 2017-18, Royal Mail.
FTC2050 project overview
Last-mile parcel delivery – characteristics and trends
Same-day delivery market and operations
Surveys of next-day last-mile parcel operations in central London
J. Allen, M. Piecyk & M. Piotrowska (2018) AN ANALYSIS OF THE SAME-DAY DELIVERY MARKET AND OPERATIONS IN THE UK FTC2050 project report. DOI: to be added.
J. Allen, M. Piecyk & M. Piotrowska (2016) AN ANALYSIS OF ONLINE SHOPPING AND HOME DELIVERY IN THE UK FTC2050 project report. DOI: to be added.
J. Allen, M. Piecyk & M. Piotrowska (2016) AN ANALYSIS OF ROAD FREIGHT IN LONDON AND BRITAIN: TRAFFIC, ACTIVITY AND SUSTAINABILITY FTC2050 project report. DOI: to be added.
J. Allen, M. Piecyk & M. Piotrowska (2016) AN ANALYSIS OF THE NEXT-DAY AND ECONOMY PARCELS MARKET AND PARCEL CARRIERS’ OPERATIONS IN THE UK FTC2050 project report. DOI: to be added.
P. Greening, M. Piecyk, A. Palmer & P. Dadhich (2019) DECARBONISING ROAD FREIGHT A review commissioned by the Government Office for Science as a part of their evidence review for the ‘Future of Mobility’ project.