Presentation about light electric vehicles for urban freight for LEVV Conference Barcelona sept 2016

1. Dutch Research on Business Models for
Light Electric Vehicles in City Logistics
Walther Ploos van Amstel
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
1st World Light Electric Vehicle Summit
Barcelona, 20th & 21st September 2016

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LEFV’s in urban freight
• Burning platform in urban freight
• Challenges in LEFV’s for urban freight
• Research: LEVV-LOGIC

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Burning platform
• 10-15% urban traffic is freight
• 80% is light commercial van today
• Urban freight becoming more fine mazed
and time critical
• In B2C 25% of shipments not first time right
• CO2, air quality, noise, damage
• Liveability and vitality of cities are at danger
• LEFV’s could be the solution

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LEFV’s in urban freight
23% shift in
trips
51% shift in
trips

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LEFV’s in urban freight
• Technology is available, however only on
small scale
• Complex business models for urban
freight
• Logistics concepts for end-to-end supply
chain missing
• Regulatory issues no yet solved

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LEFV’s in urban freight – KSF’s
• Focus on big volumes: construction,
HoReCa, parcels (B2C, B2B and C2C),
waste, service logistics and retail
• Better service for customers
• Lower cost in the end-to-end supply
chain
• Solid business models
• Continuity in local government policies

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LEVV-Logic project
• Market and policy
• Logistics concept
• Technology
• Application and evaluation in living labs
• Dissemination

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Logistics concept
Strategy
Results
Network
Planning and control
ICT
Organisation
NationalandEUpolicies
Localpolicies

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More information
• http://www.hva.nl/onderzoek/hva-
onderzoek/projecten/item/levv.ht
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• Susanne Balm:
s.h.balm@hva.nl