In the Media
Amazon’s warehouse expansion has brought its presence closer to neighborhoods, raising tensions with residents and unions. Anne Goodchild in Bloomberg News: “It should be something that communities feel they have a voice in.”
The average Prime order might constitute radically different items, which are both guaranteed to make it to your doorstep in 24 hours or less. “It gets harder to consolidate,” Anne Goodchild, a professor of engineering at the University of Washington.
“Warp brings a fierce appetite for innovation, bringing high-impact, low-cost solutions to goods delivery in urban settings and cities,” said Anne Goodchild, director of the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center. “Having worked together previously on the Seattle Neighborhood Delivery Hub with great success, we are looking forward to seeing what we can do next.”
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell names a search committee for a permanent director of the Seattle Department of Transportation — a “robust committee of transportation leaders and community partners” — including our Anne Goodchild.
The event, “How Zero-Emission Urban Last Mile Deliveries Work for Cities,” hosted by Anne Goodchild, brought together several companies working to solve delivery congestion issues.
Anne Goodchild talks about the competition for urban curb space and possible solutions for allocating space.
FreightWaves caught up with Penn State’s Andisheh Ranjbari (formerly Manager, Urban Freight Lab) after hearing her presentation at the urban freight session at the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting in Washington earlier this month.
“It is very normal now for trucking and logistics companies to talk about sustainability not as some peripheral thing but as a fundamental shift,” Prof. Anne Goodchild said, adding that Amazon, by making commitments upfront, is “helping to create a market.”
A pilot project in Seattle through the University of Washington’s Urban Freight Lab tests an “open-network” locker, which can store deliveries from multiple retailers. It’s part of a three-year project testing the ability of different technology solutions to reduce delivery vehicle dwell time and planet-warming carbon emissions. An initial pilot program eliminated failed first deliveries and reduced delivery time.
A pilot program that used electric cargo bikes to make deliveries in a Seattle neighborhood reduced emissions for each package by 30 percent.
Experts say local, state and federal mandates are not responsible for current nationwide shipping delays.
Seattle’s last-mile delivery hub has been working on ways to rethink urban deliveries. One of its tests seems to be an enormous success.
URB-E joins Amazon, PepsiCo, Ford Motor Co., Coaster Cycles, BrightDrop, and REEF in the Urban Freight Lab, which works land use and transportation infrastructure to combat ecommerce delivery congestion
The lessons of the pandemic have, in many ways, given retailers a sense of optimism and excitement about what’s possible in the future.
By Bill Keough, Anne Goodchild, and Giacomo Dalla Chiara
Consumers have become accustomed to having the products they order delivered faster than ever. Using innovative techniques to securely deliver goods wherever and whenever the customer requests them, delivery companies are advancing to meet this demand.