Munich: City Logistics Marketplace

The Challenge

In Munich, to enable sustainable city logistics, measures are needed to eliminate or shift truck-based delivery traffic. Promising solutions are cargo bike delivery schemes or cross-provider parcel lockers. To scale up such business models, spaces for micro depots or parcel lockers are required. However, Munich, similar to many cities, faces the challenge of scarcity of (logistics) space in city centres. In order to relieve high-density inner-city areas and boost innovative solutions, there is a need for a digital marketplace that brings together owners of private or commercial spaces (e.g. vacant storefronts, parking lots, parking garages) with potential tenants/users/logistics providers.

The Objective

The main goal is to gather insights into the required density or number of logistics spaces (multi-user micro-hubs) and on how to further develop a marketplace for logistics space (how to most effectively populate the database, appropriate marketing efforts, who are the customers, what do they need to optimize)? Establishment of a (prototype) digital marketplace for logistics space as a basis/enabler for the further development of urban logistics innovations. An evaluation of different sources of supply for space lessors as well as the suitability of different types of space will be carried out together with the logistics providers. Space regulatory demands are to be addressed by use cases