News / Cities need to adopt a wider focus on logistics in their urban planning

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Urban planners must work with logistics providers to develop integrated concepts to align deliveries with other elements of urban living.

This is a dialogue that has hardly begun, argues a new study of the impact of e-commerce on urban living and city planning.

Parcel research and consulting firm M-R-U teamed up with building and real estate consultant Drees & Sommer and consulting firm LNC to explore the interface between urban planning and the spread of logistics activities in US cities in the ...