A new collaboration between two Newcastle-based businesses aims to create mobile transit hubs, which are designed to reduce costs and carbon emissions from last-mile deliveries.
Developer of dismountable and transformable zero-emission vehicle platform if.Vehicles will work with optimisation software company The Algorithm People to develop a solution that helps delivery companies to be as efficient as possible.
The goal is to establish mobile transient hubs, a new logistics solution where vans or light trucks become mobile hubs, meeting much smaller EVs on their routes to hand over parcels and goods for delivery.
Bill Clare, CEO for if.Vehicles, said: “As consumers and businesses increasingly shift to online shopping, reducing emissions from last-mile logistics is going to be even more critical to the UK meeting its climate change goals.
“Working with The Algorithm People we can offer the complete package for the last-mile that not only reduces emissions but increases capacity of the whole fleet – innovative, battery-powered vehicles, novel fleet integration methods and the software to optimise their use.”
According to the collaboration, by bringing their technologies together they aim to make switching to more efficient last-mile deliveries affordable and easy.
Furthermore, if.Vehicles will become a reseller of The Algorithm People’s route optimisation platform, My Transport Planner, and the two will collaborate on future R&D.
Colin Ferguson, CEO of The Algorithm People, added: “Our partnership with if.Vehicles will enable couriers, logistics operators and home delivery companies to transition to mobile transient hubs. This will significantly reduce emissions from the last mile, while ensuring it remains affordable and convenient for customers.”
