URBe-Log (Urban electronic logistics)

A last-mile logistics national project

PoliTo’s competences:A. De Marco – Management, Dept. of Management and Production EngineeringG. Perboli – Operations Research, Dept. of Control and Computer EngineeringC. Pronello – Transportation, Dept. of Regional and Urban Studies&Planning

Partners

• Industries– Telecom Italia SpA– SELEX SpA– Iveco SpA– TNT SpA

• SMEs

• University– Politecnico di Torino, Turin– Scuola Superione Sant’Anna, Pisa– Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan

Concepts

• SCOPE– developing and testing an innovative open digital platform– providing services and apps for last-mile logistics in urban settings – aggregating process stakeholders– managing real-time distribution processes from production to delivery

• OBJECTIVE– making the last mile delivery process cost-effective, efficient and sustainable– promoting development of advanced real-time services

• VALUE– Provides added value services– Simplifies transactions – provides secure dynamic fee payments– Facilitates use of advanced forms of brokering– Enables measurable certification and accreditation for urban freight

transport

Functions

• business modeling– consolidation of loads – sharing of assets (satellite units for pick-up and delivery)– Sharing green urban vehicles

• creating an innovative middleware for– integration of open data from heterogeneous sources – ICT services for planning, management and optimization of real-time

dynamic routing and fleet management services (based on environment, weather, traffic, public policies, event conditions, etc.)

– predictive systems, negotiation and decision support systems• testing of public policies• environmental sustainability via measurement and

accreditation of urban logistics distribution players

Platform design

Work plan

Test beds

Genoa Milan Turin

Smart City Finance & Technology Programalberto.demarco@polito.it