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Sustainable City Logistics
pick-up points, smart logistics, last-mile delivery

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Start of operations

Year 2022

Scale of operations area

Municipality

Duration

Temporary

Application Locations

Madrid (Spain)
Best Practice essentials
The Challenge

The rise of e-commerce has dramatically increased the presence of delivery vans in our cities, causing more C02 emissions, noise pollution, and congestion. The issue is particularly prominent in the last-mile, where pollution and noise directly affects citizens' quality of life.


The city of Madrid, like many others, has suffered the negative effects from the increase of deliveries. Through the #ChallengeMyCity programme, the need for a sustainable last-mile delivery system was identified as one of the city's urban mobility challenges. A pan-European call was then opened to find an innovative solution to be piloted for a six-month period.


Following the end of the pilot, the economic, social, and environmental impact has been assessed to determine its potential for long-term integration and allow the city to better understand the mobility challenges it faces and how to solve them.

The Solution

Smart Point's smart locker logistics system allows cities to reduce the negative impact of last-mile deliveries by aggregating deliveries at lockers and using sustainable transport for delivery to the pick-up points.


The smart lockers can be used in combination with any courier and retailer, allowing users to comfortably pick-up any of their parcels. Beyond delivery, Smart Point lockers allow users to order a myriad of goods and services directly from the locker, ranging from dry-cleaning to breakfast.


Through the #ChallengeMyCity programme, Smart Point was selected as the solution to Madrid's last-mile delivery challenge, to be piloted in four semi-public locations for a span of six months.

End user involved

Type of end user: Citizens, logistics service provider

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Lead operator
Organisation name

Smart Point

Organisation type

Business - Startup

Other entities involved in the implementation
Organisation name

Madrid City Council

Organisation type

Public Authority - City

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