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Slide 1 PLACE Strategic Transport Bristol Freight Consolidation Centre
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PLACE
Strategic Transport
Bristol Freight Consolidation Centre
Slide 2
PLACE
Strategic Transport
What are Freight Consolidation Centres?Urban freight consolidation centres seek to reduce the number of large delivery
vehicles entering the city centre by providing a facility, on the edge of the city
close to the strategic road network, where goods can be consolidated for
onwards dispatch in a smaller, electric delivery vehicle
Objectives for Bristol
• To reduce goods vehicle and delivery vehicle movements in the central
Bristol:
• To reduce congestion and improve road safety, contributing to the targets in
the Council’s Local Transport Plan;
• To improve the environment for residents, shoppers and visitors
• To improve air quality
• To improve access and servicing arrangements
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Strategic Transport
What are Freight Consolidation Centres?
Multiple vehicles deliver independently
to a retail centre with individual retail
units receiving multiple small deliveries
during opening hours.
Causing vehicle congestion, security
issues, take up of retail staff time and
pollution
Traditional supply chain
x Congestion
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Strategic Transport
What are Freight Consolidation Centres?
Suppliers deliver to a warehouse on city periphery with 24 hour availability &
assisted deliveries.
Product is consolidated to maximise vehicle utilisation on “final mile”, making
fewer deliveries at agreed times with assistance given all the way to the retailer’s
stock room or shop floor
75% reduction in goods vehicle movements
Consolidation centre supply chain
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Strategic Transport
The End-to-End Process
Maximise environmental benefits
Deliver to stock room or shop floor
Return stock
from stores and recycling
Goods In(24/7 assisted delivery)
Stock Handling(with fulltrack andtracevisibility)
Stock request
Accurate inventorymanagement
Short lead-times
Consolidation
Deliveryto store (agreed delivery slots)
Collections& waste management
Central pointof receipt of all supplierdeliveries
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Strategic Transport
Bristol Operation
Launched May 2004 with European funding
Not mandatory
Serves 55 Bristol businesses
Including: retail, hotels, offices, healthcare, public sector, universities
Electric vehicle delivery fleet
Deliveries 6 days per week
Handles wide range of delivery media
Additional services offered at warehouse – pre-retailing, peak storage, inter-branch transfers
Users pay per pallet (£12)/ cage (£9)
Council subsidy is required currently
Joint scheme set up with Bath in January 2011
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Strategic Transport
Smith Newton 9 tonne electric delivery vehicle.
DHL depot, Smoke Lane, AvonmouthAt Junction 18 of the M5 motorway Consolidation Centre is 4,000sq ftwithin DHL’s 35,000sq ft depot.
Consolidation Centre - Operator DHL
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BenefitsENVIRONMENTAL
Electric fleet - 30% reduction in CO2, zero emissions in air quality & low noise impact
80% reduction in delivery trips for retailers who are members of the scheme
Average Annual Savings - 1,102 delivery journeys
Average Annual Savings - 13,976kgs CO2, 448kgs of NOx
Collection & recycling of cardboard & plastics– 26,400kgs since launch
SERVICE
99.9% on time delivery
No losses or damages
OTHER
Environmental credentials
No administrative burden
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Strategic Transport
Annual Data 2011 - 14
Deliveries 2011 2012 2013 2014
Deliveries to site 1187 1425 1546 1485
Deliveries from site 306 289 328 311
Reduction 881 1136 1218 1174
% Reduction 74.22 79.72 78.78 79.06
Emission Reductions (Kgs)
CO2 11804.87 13758.11 15376.07 14247.34
NOx 383.32 447.13 498.86 463.03
PM10s 11.46 13.34 14.9 13.82
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Strategic Transport
Views from the users
“DHL provides a very friendly, reliable and efficient service”
“The service has made our lives a lot easier”
“We are very impressed; the timing is perfect and the guys are very helpful”
“Excellent! The deliveries are always prompt and I like the additional attention paid to security”
75% of retailers participating in Bristol chose consolidation because of improved service
94% would recommend the service to another retailer
