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Urban Transport &
Logistics: INTRODUCTION

“With rising city populations and over 60% of all travel taking place in urban areas, there is an enormous opportunity to leverage new and innovative solutions ”

With rising city populations and over 60% of all travel taking place in urban areas, there is an enormous opportunity to leverage new and innovative solutions to improve the flow of people and goods and rapidly address some of society’s greatest challenges.

Over the past two decades, delivering goods has become a critical challenge in congested cities, resulting in painful and expensive logistics bottlenecks. The cost of congestion now in terms of time wasted in traffic and fuel consumption has risen to unmanageable levels, almost 200% more than what it was in the 1990s.

Congestion is only a part of the problem. Pollution, lack of parking, crowded public transport and warehousing costs are among the many factors contributing to the economic cost of urban transport and logistics.

urban mobility of tomorrow
Along with all this, the future of urban mobility is driven by rapid technological development and interest in new solutions. From the self-driving electric bus, connected trains, fully electric local distribution vehicles—including autonomous driving functions—and commercial vehicles with alternative powertrains, to the use of drones for the last mile or less accessible locations, the industry is gearing up for the urban mobility of tomorrow.

In this white paper, we will show how new opportunities such as connected, autonomous and electric mobility will deliver efficiency and growth for the movement of people and goods in the urban environment. We will present a vision and timeline to 2025 to demonstrate how technology and new business models will improve the efficiency of our growing cities while improving the lives of the people who live there.

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