What is a Macro Logistic Hub?
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A Cross River Partnership report published in April 2024, providing a comprehensive overview of the learnings from the Pimlico Hub Trial.
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A logistics hub is a site that couriers use for their day-to-day deliveries as a place to receive, sort and then send deliveries to their destination.
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Logistics hubs play a pivotal role in fostering healthy and efficient deliveries across London. By serving as a crucial step for consolidating deliveries, they significantly reduce the number of vehicle trips and congestion. This, in turn, paves the way for last-mile deliveries to be made by electric vehicles, bikes, or on foot, thereby contributing to a significant reduction in harmful exposure to toxic air pollutants, a major health concern in our urban environment.
Cross River Partnership developed the Urban Logistics Hubs webpage as part of the Defra-funded Clean Air Villages 4 project. We also worked with transport consultants Steer to identify potential logistics hub sites in London in this report funded by Transport for London and supported by the Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership.
It is a one-stop-shop for information on potential logistics hubs in LondonIt provides opportunities for landowners to develop revenue from vacant spacesIt provides an opportunity to contribute to your sustainability and CSR goals by improving air qualityThere is an opportunity to develop new business relationships and collaborate on innovative logistics projectsYou can help improve the health of LondonersYou can become part of the future of zero-emission logistics
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What is a Macro Logistic Hub?
A larger urban logistics hub which often also host larger fleets of (electric) cargo bikes or (electric) vans. This larger site can also be used by couriers for their day-to-day deliveries as a place to receive, sort and then send deliveries to their destination by cargo bikes, walking porters or a small electric van. This is sometimes also referred to as urban logistics hub, larger consolidation hub or larger fulfilment hub.
What is a Micro Logistic Hub?
A small site that couriers use for their day-to-day deliveries as a place to receive, sort and then send deliveries to their destination by cargo bikes, walking porters or a small electric van. This is sometimes also referred to as micro consolidation hub or micro fulfilment hub.
What are examples of hubs in practise?
There are already a variety of established logistics hubs in central London. Parcel delivery company DPD provides distribution services from a logistics hub in Westminster, utilising a fleet of 10 electric vans and eight micro-vehicles. In December 2020, The City of London approved its first Last Mile Logistics Hub for Amazon Logistics.
Also, CRP has worked on micro logistic hub trials in Pimlico and Wandsworth, see below for the report and learnings from the trials.
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A Cross River Partnership report published in April 2024, providing a comprehensive overview of the learnings from the Pimlico Hub Trial.
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Your step-by-step timeline of the stakeholders, processes, complexities, considerations and opportunities for setting up a micro-logistics hub on underutilised land in your borough.
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Setting up a local micro logistics hub to support low-emission deliveries in London.
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Understanding the space requirements for developing and operating a micro logistics hub site.
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A Cross River Partnership snapshot: Developing a hub in the Southside Shopping Centre
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Choose to ‘click & collect’ when shopping online to help reduce the number of vans on our streets and clean our air. Find the most convenient collection point for you using our interactive map.
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A Cross River Partnership document that provides information to support developing the Waterloo Freight Hub
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A Cross River Partnership document that provides information to support developing an urban logistic hub.
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A Cross River Partnership document that provides information to support developing cargo bike and walking freight initiatives.
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Momentum Transport Consultancy (Momentum) was commissioned by Cross River Partnership (CRP) to evaluate the Brixton last mile logistics trial project. The trial was delivered with Pedal Me, a cargo bike operator, and funded by Impact on Urban Health.
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Cross River Partnership (CRP) worked with the London Borough of Lambeth, Brixton BID and cargo bike couriers Pedal Me, to offer Brixton's businesses the opportunity to join a free micro hub and cargo bike delivery trial. The aim was to reduce the number of polluting vans in Brixton and the surrounding area, thereby improving local air quality for Brixton's businesses and residents.
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A Cross River Partnership report published in December 2020 which identified potential sites for urban logistics hubs in central London and developed an understanding of the market demand for such facilities.
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Reduce your exposure to air pollution by using CRP’s interactive journey planner, developed in partnership with King’s College London and Imperial College London, to help identify low pollution walking and cycling routes in London.
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A Cross River Partnership report published in December 2020, identifying potential sites for Urban Logistics Hubs in central London and developing an understanding of the market demand for such facilities.
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Improve air quality in your area by using our directory of companies that offer zero and ultra-low emission deliveries and services.
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deliverBEST shares practical, proven solutions that make deliveries to your business more efficient. It saves you time and money while improving local air quality.
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The Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership (CLSRTP) is a collective of senior transport officers and directors from ten London boroughs who provide strategic advice for, and on behalf of, Transport for London (TfL). The partnership, which has been active since 2009, acts as a trusted impartial forum for the boroughs to share experiences and enable collaboration on key sub-regional transport priorities, delivering projects, innovative pilots and trials, forward-thinking research and strategies. The map has also been developed by the Defra-funded Clean Air Villages 4 project, which supports 26 public and private project partners to reduce pollution by ambitious, clean air freight interventions in London.
The CLSRTP partners are:
