Smart mobility

• Solutions should be guided by the design and delivery principles outlined in the Government Service Standard and Design Principles.
• Easy to use.
• Generates data:
  • Vehicle data (size, fuel)
  • Freight profile data (how full is it, what is it moving)
  • Vehicle movement (temporal, spatial).
• Compatible with vehicle changes or swaps.
• Generates insights into how goods are best moved.
• Using a cleaner vehicle (such as cargo bikes)
  • Journeys made at a different time
  • Journeys consolidated.

• The overall impact would be cleaner air in and around central London. King’s College and other organisations would be better informed as to how to make operations more efficient, saving money and reducing people’s exposure to air pollution.
• The short-term impact may include ‘re-moding’ (transition to cleaner modes of transport), re-timing of deliveries (reducing journeys made when most people are occupying the public realm) or reducing the number of polluting delivery vehicles (consolidating deliveries).
• Long-term impacts include investment into cleaner fleets and/or reduction in fleet size, the movement of goods made more resilient and reliable as data expands.

DynamicLink is a one-stop platform for the on-demand optimisation of freight journeys for operators. Based on the operator’s decisions, the platform learns to anticipate and helps with the proactive management of your fleet, supporting your long-term logistics strategy to help you reach your optimisation goals, while encouraging low carbon solutions (e.g. cargo bike logistics).

In the long term, Kale Collective’s vision is to create an urban logistics marketplace where organisations can share and jointly consolidate freight deliveries to minimise both costs and emissions across partners. They aim to approach this in a hyperlocal way, where nearby businesses can connect to one another.

We’re very excited to be one of the finalists for the Mayor’s Resilience Fund. Combining our expertise in Machine Learning, product design, and cargo-bike logistics, we look forward to our collaboration with the challenge partners to be part of this movement.

FlowOS is Waze for commercial fleets. It’s a dynamic fleet network that monitors the real time status of multiple vehicle fleets and identifies opportunities for those businesses to:

1. Adjust ETAs and itineraries based on collectively sensed information about road network conditions and resulting arrival and departure time estimates.
2. Coordinate pickup and drop off times to make it easier to transfer goods between vehicles and use depot space more efficiently.
3. Trade spare capacity and delivery obligations across the network to increase vehicle utilisation.

We’re really excited to be part of the Smart Mobility Cohort of the Mayors Resilience Fund. It provides a great opportunity to engage with King’s College London and the local Southbank business community to get concrete feedback for our fleet networking technology. We believe we can really help the local business community to cut delivery costs and play their part in reducing emissions from logistics. MRF provides a great platform to test that proposition with the backing of the GLA and Nesta to drive the innovation forward.

EMSOL empowers organisations to take steps every day to make a lasting difference in reducing pollution and meeting clean air targets. EMSOL goes beyond passive pollution monitoring, bringing together pollution data and fusing it with vehicle or asset location data to quickly and accurately identify real time sources of pollution.

If a pollution breach occurs on site or from a vehicle in the supply chain those who need to take action are instantly notified. The EMSOL platform shares pollution insights in secure, easy-to-understand cloud-based dashboards, with configurable views so everyone only sees what they should.

We are delighted to have been selected for the Mayors Resilience Fund. As innovators looking to quickly learn and develop our approach to making freight journeys smarter and greener. The Fund provides a way for EMSOL to address socially impactful issues facing London and help us emerge stronger from COVID-19 while working with other committed and innovative partners such as Better Bankside and Kings College London.

Zedify’s mission is to transform urban logistics to create the healthier, more liveable cities of the future. Their unique sustainable logistics model is centred around hyperlocal microhubs which deploy fleets of electric cargo bikes across the city. At the very heart of their operations is ZAPP, a purpose-built mobility management tool which optimises delivery routes by reducing the number and length of journeys.

We are thrilled to be taking part in the Mayor’s Resilience Fund. Zedify was set up to transform urban logistics to create the healthier, more liveable cities of the future. The pandemic has accelerated the shift to ecommerce and a recent report by the World Economic Forum predicts that the resulting demand for urban last mile delivery will grow 78% by 2030, leading to a 36% rise in delivery vehicles in inner cities. London, like many other cities across the world is quite literally suffocating from congestion and pollution caused, in the main, by deliveries. With support from the Mayor’s Resilience Fund we can accelerate the development of ZAPP, our sustainable delivery management tool, and make it available to a much wider range of organisations enabling them to limit their environmental impact, future-proof their fleets and, together, we can disrupt the traditional delivery model across London making it cleaner and fit for the 21st century.

Sam Keam, Co-Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer, Zedify

• Facilitate meeting between working group members and ensure smooth collection of data.
• Background data into air pollution and how to calculate emissions from vehicles.
• King’s College London will provide use of their fleet to test challenge solutions, they have the ability to make non-destructive changes/additions to their vehicles.
• King’s College London will provide other journey related information and data from the King’s booking system which may inform how delivery demand is generated (such as how a journey is booked, booking requirements before a journey is made, minimum number of packages), and will be measuring the emissions not emitted when changes are made.