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New Sustainable Home Delivery Solutions

Thursday, June 11, 2020

The corona crisis has created a national need for home deliveries to risk groups and those who isolate themselves. The project 'Large-scale coordinated home deliveries' establishes an environmentally friendly and cost-effective supply chain that ensures the home delivery of food, ready meals, pharmaceuticals and parcel packages to people in quarantine.

Large-scale Coordinated home deliveries will establish a scalable, innovative solution for an uninterrupted cooling chain with delivery by taxi and other suitable vehicles, a low-price business model for customers, and system support for automated route planning and payment flows. 

-"The concept is a win-win solution that both saves jobs in the transport and restaurant industries and deliveries food and basic necessities to people in risk groups and under quarantine," says Anders Forsberg, Project Manager at CLOSER

The project is important for safe delivery of food and food packages to risk groups in their homes during pandemics and other crises. This requires extensive national delivery capability based on existing carriers, such as taxis. The taxi industry is also in crisis, with up an income loss of up to 75-90%.

Great Social Benefit and Potential

The solution is also greatly beneficial to society during non-crisis times because it ensures national commercial service in all parts of the country. We see an exponential increase of cargo transport with e-commerce deliveries in dense cities while basic services in rural and rural areas are depleted and face major challenges. 

-"We see great potential in unexpected collaborations, such as cargo, recycling and delivery services being coordinated in one route. These solutions are more environmentally friendly, cost-effective and scalable, and the service level can be improved at the same time. Freelway has doubled the number of public transport departures in rural areas in Dalarna by making existing vehicle movements within public transportation available," says Roland Elander, Project Manager at Sustainable Innovation.

By launching the service in the both small and large municipalities, the objective is to achieve national coverage for home deliveries in the shortest possible time with the support of an integrated system solution (connected digital infrastructure) for secure booking, payment and coordination of deliveries via taxi and other delivery vehicles in urban and rural areas alike. 

What to know more about the project?

The project has received funding from Vinnova through the call for Innovations in the Wake of the Crisis. The aim is to meet challenges and capture opportunities that society is now facing. Of the 270 applications that were received, 18 were granted support for the call for Innovation in the Wake of the Crisis. The project begins in May 2020 and will run until the end of October 2020. 

Feel free to contact SSHe, Large-scale coordinated home deliveries, for more information.

Anders Forsberg, CLOSER
anders.forsberg@lindholmen.se

The project is financed by Vinnova.

Project participants:
Sustainable Innovation is a non-profit company that leads collaborative projects for the transition to a sustainable society.
CLOSER is a national collaboration platform, knowledge hub and project workshop for increased transport efficiency. 
Freelway is an app and system solution for coordination and collective transport of people and freight. 
Taxi Stockholm is one of Stockholm's oldest and largest taxi companies and is working to be Sweden's most environmentally-friendly taxi company.
Stora Enso is a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomass, wood products and paper and thus a part of the bio-economy
Coop is Sweden's second largest supermarket chain with around 660 stores from Kiruna in the north to Smygehamn in the south.
The Municipality of Mariestad's vision is a sustainable and thriving port with safe living environments, where innovations and new entrepreneurs have a good basis for growth. 
Eskilstuna Municipality's vision is to lead the way to an environmentally smart life based on equality in our safe, beautiful cities, pleasant communities and vibrant rural areas.