Hamburg | Multi-User Micro-Depot
Description
Multi-User micro depot Hamburg Burchardstraße
The current situation of the delivery traffic in cities results in heavy traffic as well as conflicts with other traffic participants. Alternative solutions for urban logistics can help relieving the inner cities and consequently improve the quality of living. One solution, which is tested throughout different cities is the approach of micro depots. The depot set up by the Hamburger Hochbahn AG serves as a goods transfer point that are used jointly by three parcel delivery services and a supermarket delivery service. Deliveries are bundled here and then transported to the end customer by cargo bike in a climate-neutral manner.
In January 2021 the first jointly used micro depot for last mile logistics has been launched in the inner city of Hamburg. It was initiated and is managed by the Hamburger Hochbahn AG, one of the major public transport providers of the city. Logistics partners are the parcel services Hermes, UPS and DHL as well as the supermarket REWE delivering food. All of the partners are using cargo bikes to deliver goods from the depot within Hamburgs inner city. The goal of the project, that is receiving national and municipal funding, is to relieve traffic in the inner city and to lower harmful emissions.
In addition to the topics traffic and climate, the synergies between transport of people and goods play a role in this Project, according to Henrik Falk, chairman of the board of the Hamburger Hochbahn. He points out, that as a neutral provider of the space for the depot they are not only connecting various service providers, but also build partnerships for urban logistics with the perspective to understand which role the infrastructure of the Hamburger Hochbahn AG could play in the future.
The micro depot is a subproject of the project Reallabor Hamburg (RealLabHH). The latter is based on the “National Platform Future of Mobility (NPM)” of the federal government, which is described as the focal point for discussions on strategic decisions in the field of mobility. Within the project RealLabHH the digital mobility of tomorrow is being tested and blueprint for the mobility of the future is to be created.
The central objective of the RealLabHH project is to produce recommendations for action and lessons learned for an environmentally and climate-friendly transformation of the mobility system. At the ITS World Congress 2021, the results and demonstrators of the RealLabHH were presented in and around the city of Hamburg.
(Source: Hamburg-News.hamburg; reallab-hamburg.de)
Innovation and Relevance
This multi-user micro depot is part of the testbed category III of idle and new infrastructures. For the depot an unused space could be rented and used for testing the delivery with cargo bikes from a shared depot. Three different parcel delivery services and a supermarket delivery service are sharing the space under a neutral provider, the public transport company Hamburger Hochbahn AG. The project can give insight to the advantages of bringing together logistic actors in a multi-user depot as well as the challenges faced. It also allows the comparison to conventional last mile logistics regarding harmful emissions and relieving of inner city traffic.
Relation to other urban Logistics Projects
The micro depot is a subproject of the project Reallabor Hamburg (RealLabHH). The latter is based on the “National Platform Future of Mobility (NPM)” of the federal government which is described as the focal point for discussions on strategic decisions in the field of mobility. Within the project RealLabHH the digital mobility of tomorrow is being tested and blueprint for the mobility of the future is to be created.
The central objective of the RealLabHH project is to produce recommendations for action and lessons learned for an environmentally and climate-friendly transformation of the mobility system. At the ITS World Congress 2021, the results and demonstrators of the RealLabHH were presented in and around the city of Hamburg.
(Source: reallab-hamburg.de)
The central objective of the RealLabHH project is to produce recommendations for action and lessons learned for an environmentally and climate-friendly transformation of the mobility system. At the ITS World Congress 2021, the results and demonstrators of the RealLabHH were presented in and around the city of Hamburg.
(Source: reallab-hamburg.de)
Plans for Future Development
The runtime of the micro depot has been extended for another year and will be operating at its current location in Burchardstraße until the end of 2022 with the help of public funding. The Hamburger Hochbahn AG is planning to find a new location for the depot to continue its operation beyond 2022.
Impressions
Fotocredits: © Hamburger Hochbahn AG/Marc-Oliver Schulz / Openstreetmap.de
