DENSE - The consolidated e-commerce delivery

Purpose and goal:

This project aims to understand and develop how a consolidation solution for last-mile transportation could be created on market terms. The project is designed as a feasibility study and explores how one/several model/s for a competition-neutral delivery solution based on existing infrastructure in the city of Stockholm. The model must touch on the practical set-up and operation as well as how one/or several business model/s could look for the solution, as well as map regulatory obstacles.

Expected results and effects:

The project consists of several key players that hold significant importance in the Swedish ecosystem. ASTER, leading the project, has over 110 partners in the e-commerce chain and also has close connections to European platforms and innovation projects. Results will be shared both in writing and visually through materials generated in the project, but also by involving a large number of other parties in the mobilization of the system demonstration.

Approach and implementation:

The project is summarized in three work packages. AP1 is project coordination, dissemination of results and creating conditions for the project to be able to seek a next step. AP2 must carry out and compile a number of interviews to arrive at an analysis of environmental, economic, social and regulatory consequences for a number of possible scenarios for the solution.

Through workshops and working meetings, AP3 shall generate mobilization of partners for the system demo, as well as plan for a practical Proof of Concept scenario for a system demo proposal.