Innovation Transferability Platform
Strategic Level
IAR
The Impact Assessment Radar is a tool designed to evaluate a city’s readiness for implementing innovative urban logistics solutions, such as micro-consolidation centers with automated lockers. It helps cities understand their capacity in areas like regulations, infrastructure, logistics networks, and stakeholder involvement. The tool revealed gaps in sustainable urban logistics planning, particularly the absence of a dedicated team. At the Tactical Level, the Radar as applied to the Thessaloniki LL, uses data from city demand and last-mile delivery providers to simulate scenarios for decision-making. These simulations estimate the optimal number of lockers needed in city planning. The outcomes guide stakeholders in determining locker placement and evaluating initial assumptions. The Operational Level of the Radar monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) to optimise operations.
Tactical Level
CitiQore
The URBANE Digital Twin Platform (DT) simulates various delivery scenarios, allowing users to test strategies like adding micro hubs or changing delivery vehicles to evaluate their impact on efficiency, costs, and environmental outcomes before real-world implementation. The DT integrates models developed during the project to explore operational performance in Living Labs (LLs). Users can define and test scenarios through the platform, which was made accessible to project partners in 2023. Based on feedback, a user-friendly application, CitIQore, was developed to offer simulation capabilities to users without a modelling background (e.g. city authorities, operators). In the case of Bologna, CitIQore allows users to input specific parameters, such as vehicle types or delivery numbers, and place lockers and depots on a map interface. The application then runs several models in sequence, including a random delivery generation model, a collaborative delivery model, and emission calculation models for both electric and non-electric vehicles. A cost-benefit analysis model assesses the economic viability of scenarios. The results are presented on a dedicated dashboard.
Smart Contracts
The blockchain system was designed to ensure non-repudiation in the shipment process involving multiple parties by tracking key transfer events. These events include order registration, delivery, warehouse arrival, retrieval from compartments, and delivery to secondary locations, among others. Another core objective of the blockchain system has been to assess the performance of services against predefined service level agreements (SLAs). Users can set rules to monitor missed, delayed, or damaged shipments. The LLs send event data through an API to the blockchain platform, where it’s processed and displayed in the URBANE blockchain dashboard. Before tracking, a smart contract must be created using a contract generator, where users choose the events to monitor and set applicable rules. Once the contract is activated, new event data becomes visible in the Shipments Dashboard, providing real-time tracking. For further details, users can view all registered shipment events in the Last Mile Events tab. Alerts are triggered when set rules are executed, ensuring comprehensive oversight of shipment performance. One additional item that the blockchain does for the platform has to do with the tracking of user digital ids and ensuring that their access to platform services is logged in case of an unauthorized security breach. The non-repudiation capability of blockchain ensures that the platform can recreate who did what when if needed.
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IAR
The Impact Assessment Radar is a tool designed to evaluate a city’s readiness for implementing innovative urban logistics solutions, such as micro-consolidation centers with automated lockers. It helps cities understand their capacity in areas like regulations, infrastructure, logistics networks, and stakeholder involvement. The tool revealed gaps in sustainable urban logistics planning, particularly the absence of a dedicated team. At the Tactical Level, the Radar as applied to the Thessaloniki LL, uses data from city demand and last-mile delivery providers to simulate scenarios for decision-making. These simulations estimate the optimal number of lockers needed in city planning. The outcomes guide stakeholders in determining locker placement and evaluating initial assumptions. The Operational Level of the Radar monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) to optimise operations.
Operational Level
IAR
The Impact Assessment Radar is a tool designed to evaluate a city’s readiness for implementing innovative urban logistics solutions, such as micro-consolidation centers with automated lockers. It helps cities understand their capacity in areas like regulations, infrastructure, logistics networks, and stakeholder involvement. The tool revealed gaps in sustainable urban logistics planning, particularly the absence of a dedicated team. At the Tactical Level, the Radar as applied to the Thessaloniki LL, uses data from city demand and last-mile delivery providers to simulate scenarios for decision-making. These simulations estimate the optimal number of lockers needed in city planning. The outcomes guide stakeholders in determining locker placement and evaluating initial assumptions. The Operational Level of the Radar monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) to optimise operations.