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Over the past two decades delivering goods into cities has become a challenge with cities getting overly congested and traffic jams resulting in expensive logistics bottlenecks. Studies show that the cost of congestion now in terms of time wasted in traffic and fuel consumption is off the roof, almost 200% more than what it was in the 1980s. Pollution, lack of parking bays, and warehousing costs are all restraints that are contributing to the economic cost of urban logistics.
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I live right in the very center of Amsterdam and look out over the bustling square in front of Central Station. Every day, around the clock, trucks and delivery vans drive past my door to deliver shoes and put fresh fish on the table; they deliver packages from web stores, they arrive with construction materials, and they pick up lots and lots of garbage. It’s a wonderful sight if you enjoy transport as much as I do.
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The San bushman’s wisdom on planning coal export railways by Andrew Marsay, transport economist at the 2nd Annual Transportation Africa Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Urban Logistics offers unique tailor-made solutions for the transport of goods in cities by consolidating & rationalizing the existing logistics platforms and creating innovative solutions for the future through the use of information and communication technologies.
Over the past two decades delivering goods into cities has become a challenge with cities getting overly congested and traffic jams resulting in expensive logistics bottlenecks. Studies show that the cost of congestion now in terms of time wasted in traffic and fuel consumption is off the roof, almost 200% more than what it was in the 1980s. Pollution, lack of parking bays, and warehousing costs are all restraints that are contributing to the economic cost of urban logistics.
This presentation, part of a class work of Erwan Le Roc'h, Antony Zouzout and Rémi Philippe at ESSEC will explore the possibilities and ideal mix for this kind of project.
Clean and sustainable cities are appealing places to live, to work, to enjoy life, and – not least – to invest in.
I live right in the very center of Amsterdam and look out over the bustling square in front of Central Station. Every day, around the clock, trucks and delivery vans drive past my door to deliver shoes and put fresh fish on the table; they deliver packages from web stores, they arrive with construction materials, and they pick up lots and lots of garbage. It’s a wonderful sight if you enjoy transport as much as I do.
My neighbors aren’t quite as excited about transport, however. They complain about the poor air quality, the lack of safety, and the inaccessibility of the neighborhood. Irritation is also growing among the local business owners themselves. Their customers are complaining... It’s really not much fun trying to enjoy a cold beer at an outdoor café with all those trucks and touring cars chugging by.
Good city logistics is important for the economic vitality and the appeal of cities. It ensures that restaurants can serve their guests, that stores can offer the very latest product range and that buildings can be renovated without delays.
Urbanization puts new demands on urban mobility. As customer demands evolve, city logistics is becoming more and more finely meshed and more often just-in-time. If no adjustments are made to current policy, city logistics will continue to grow. City logistics needs to become smarter, cleaner, quieter, and safer, with faster flows.
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2. Texxi defined
Texxi =
Transit Exchange + Linear Optimisation +
Social Networking + Reputation
Mask/Credit System + Credit Contagion
Mapping + Automatic Dependent
Surveillance (Broadcast) + Predictive
Placement
3. What is Texxi
● Texxi is a system that groups people "on-the-fly" who have texted
in to request a taxi to go somewhere.
● People who share similar destinations are sent details of a place to
go and meet a shared taxi, where they will pay a lower fare if they
consent to sharing with others going in their direction.
● This makes the whole taxi fleet far more efficient and far more
green, while reducing congestion, waiting times and fuel use.
● Texxi makes money in the same way as travel companies
make money – it takes a cut of brokered trips.
4. An “operating system” for Transit /
Transport
● Texxi is a transport operating system which is designed to increase
the productivity of any vehicle transport system (taxis, buses,
ferries, planes, emergency and military assets ) all while reducing
energy usage.
● It is macroeconomic in scope if adopted on a large enough scale,
since it will effectively remove the gap in mobility radius (and
hence economic productivity) between between owners of cars
and users of public transport.
● People will thus be able to take jobs, which were previously
unobtainable if they have the transport options available.
5. How it was invented
● The Texxi system evolved from a series of research projects over a 12 year
period.
1) The first project was an electricity supply project where demand for electrical
power is managed using a database of meteorological conditions to increase the
throughput of the electricity transmission system. Thus we used ambient
conditions to plan for how to route power.
2) The second project was a trip to examine the "Role of Computers in
Transportation Technology" in the United States, where I visited CALTRANS,
two NASA bases and ACM SIGGRAPH 95 in Los Angeles. This was funded
by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Aeronautical Society.
6. How it was invented
● 3) A project undertaken at Ecole Centrale De Lyon in 1996-1997 was a groupware
database system to enable campus ridesharing for students.
4) A project undertaken for a US based Hedge fund specialising in capital structure
arbitrage.
● Texxi is a Demand Responsive Transit (DRT) Exchange.
● It resembles an agricultural commodity exchange but for taxi drivers.
● We consider taxi drivers to be like smallholders who have produce to sell.
● We wanted to create a mechanism to link buyers and sellers transparently and with
ratings.
● SMS and computers allow this. Their costs dropped low enough in 2004 – 2005 to make
this viable.
7. How it was invented
● In summary
● 1992 - 1993 : National Grid Technology and Science Laboratories, Overhead Lines
Division, Plant Technology.
● 1995 : Sponsored summer project ("The Role of Computers in
Transportation Technology") - Royal Academy of Engineering / Royal Aeronautical
Society.
● 1997 : Ecole Centrale De Lyon project on RideSharing using groupware
technologies, Professeur Christian Vial, oversaw. We dubbed it Project Lugh, after
the Celtic deity for whom Lyon is named.
● 1998 - 2003 : Various exposures to financial systems front-office, back-office and
middle office computer systems at investment banks and multinational firms
● 2003 - 2004 : Project at Xaraf LLC / Paloma Partners (was the basis of my H1-B job
offer). Credit Default Swap / Convertible Bond trading and Capital Structure
Arbitrage trading strategies. It is here I came up with my credit contagion ideas
which turned out to be so prescient.
● 2004 - Present : Texxi
8. Deployments & results to date
● Where has it been deployed
Liverpool, UK
March 2006 - September 2006 (135)
● Ryde, Isle of Wight, UK
July 2008 - Dec 2008 (700)
● Bournemouth, UK
Nov 2008 - Dec 2008 (20)
9. What were the key issues in
deployment?
● Liverpool 2006 - Banners, Billboards, Flyers, Radio, “Buzz”
● Moving target
● Invalid assumptions
● Wrong marketing strategy in Liverpool for the target customer
● Low Signal to Noise ratio
● This proved to be a disastrous strategy.
13. Key Issues
● Isle of Wight; July 2008 - December 2008.
● This time we invested in a large set of promotion teams. We produced higher
quality handout collateral and we restricted its distribution to people who had
become customers, i.e. actually followed the sign-up process and travelled. We
incentivised the "Street Teams" to land more customers. We ran some local PR
in the newspapers and on the radio.
We moved 5 times as many people (700) for 1/10th the cost as in Liverpool in
an area whose "potential" was far less. We never used billboards or flyers. We
got one mention on the radio. In Liverpool we ran on Friday and Saturday
nights. In Ryde, only on Friday.
14. Lessons Learned 1
● Take time to develop cordial relations with taxi firms.
● Learn the local history and politics of an area.
● Do not rush this: This is a crucial rate determining step which does
not respect Gantt charts or business plans.
● The respect of the local taxi firms is paramount. It must also be
mutual.
● Taxi firms know their business in their area better than anyone.
● Find the biggest, toughest taxi firm. This will afford necessary
protection from the inevitable threats of (and actual) violence.
● Have other access to cash and use pay-as-you-go credit cards.
15. Lessons Learned 2
● Ignore conventional marketing approaches
● Expect to spend up to 18 “impacts” with customers before the new
behaviour is set.
● "Demand" for shared trips will increase as knowledge spreads that
such a service exists and (most importantly) can be relied upon.
This means that the behaviours of customers completely changes
within a very short timescale.
● We caused a depression in normal taxi trip prices in Ryde within 3
- 6 weeks, so much so that we had threats of violence from other
firms within the 6 month deployment. This makes historical data
of limited use in predicting what will happen once uptake happens.
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● We will roll-out Texxi systems across the UK, Canada, Australia,
USA, France and Singapore.
● We have spent the last 14 months upgrading all of our transit
operating systems and acquiring new road system data.
● The road system data allows us to see how many miles each
passenger has travelled and calculate fuel / carbon savings.
● Once we have a certain critical mass of travel requests in the
system, we can leave the system on fully automatic.
● In Ryde, it took 10 weeks to get to a situation where we felt the
system could auto-manage.
● Most taxi dispatch systems (Auriga, Mercury) have a “launch-and-
learn” warm-up period.
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28. Example TouchScreen Application
• Enable intuitive, language-barrier free real-time transit
fulfillment. Select a destination and go.
Kyoto!
No language barrier, no negotiation
Store the itinerary
Select
Destination
Touch
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Mobile
phone
CLICK
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29. What does the system cost?
● For each deployment we will require the taxi firm involved to sign a contract
with strict terms and agree to operate under our franchise rules for a minimum
of 15 months.
● Ultimately, we have to protect the perception of the brand and we have to be
somewhat draconian in how we operate and with whom.
● A minimum of £20,000 cash non-refundable deposit is required for a very small
town/village. This is to ensure the taxi firm / speculator remains committed to
making the system work.
● A small city (e.g. Bournemouth, Dorset, UK) would require around £250,000
contribution.
● We would share the Texxi “cut” (12.5% to Texxi , 12.5% to the Liquidity
Supplier) with the entity that stumps up the cash. The cash would be at risk and
the supplier would sign a contract to signify that it understood the risk.
30. Pump Priming
● The marketing for a Texxi scheme is not similar to marketing for any other type
of taxi service. It is hard to convince advertisers of this. Billboards and flyers
are almost entirely pointless in the initial phases.
● Rural areas are better targets of opportunity than cities. Residents there have
fewer options and are likely to welcome any new initiatives. The power of the
bus companies is less there also.
● Population alone is no sure guide to the “fecundity” of a target territory –
microstructural interdependencies are as important.
● It is important to give taxi firms confidence that the exchange operators are
prepared to go the whole 15 months. “Liquidity” has to be supplied by some
party, either Texxi or a “speculator”.