U-TURN – Grocery Home Delivery – Dissemination Event

New Models for Last Mile Grocery Delivery

The U-TURN Project team invites our Community of Interest to a workshop on our preliminary findings and to gather industry views on Tuesday 14th March from 10am to 4pm

Location: Eastbury Manor House, Eastbury Square, Barking IG11 9SN (nearest station for over and underground is Upney)

RSVP by emailing 

We are grateful for the support of the Planning Team at Barking and Dagenham Council

U-TURN is an innovation project under the Horizon 2020 programme focused on evaluating and developing sustainable innovative solutions for urban food logistics. Our work is about finding new models that address demographic and social trends as well as supporting EU Environmental, Air quality, Safety and Mobility Policies.

The workshop will focus on Grocery E-Commerce last mile fulfilment – and the objective is to:

• Provide you valuable insight from the research
• Create multi point discussions about the issues and options in the market place
• Understand the relative position of different players — a great opportunity to network
• Identify the long term opportunities and barriers that exist 

Participants will include:

• Grocers
• Local authorities & Government
• Transport planners
• Academia 

Please join us, listen to the views that really matter, guide our research and benefit from the results. RSVP to   

Agenda

09.45 – 10.15: Registration and coffee

10.15 – 10.45: The U-TURN Project – Overview of the project goals and the pilots - Professor Katerina Pramatari – Athens University Business School

10.45 – 11.15: Grocery e-commerce home delivery – U-TURN findings on scale, customer preferences, activity and economics - Professor Alan Braithwaite – LCP Consulting

11.15 – 11.45: New model opportunities for grocery e-commerce – concepts and modelling - Dr Emel Aktas – Cranfield University School of Management

11.45 – 12.00: Coffee break

12.00 – 12.30: Transport for London – Managing freight and logistics as part of integrated transport policy - Tim Ward – Transport for London, Freight & Fleet Communications Manager

12.30 – 13.00: Introduction to Barking and Dagenham - Why freight and logistics is increasingly important for the Borough - Tim Martin – London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, Transport Planning & Policy Manager

13.00 – 13.45: Lunch break

13.45 – 14.15: The grocery industry view point – efficient consumer response and collaboration - Alan Hayes – Institute of Grocery Distribution, Sustainability & Strategy Manager

14.15 – 15.00: Breakout sessions – Discuss the challenges and barriers to collaboration and new models 

15.00 – 15.20: Feedback from the tables

15.20 – 15.50: New models: Starship and Farmdrop

15.50 – 16.00: Wrap up and thanks - Professor Michael Bourlakis – Cranfield University School of Management

About Alan

Alan is a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University where he contributes to research and teaching. In the last ten years he has taken a particular interest in freight transport sustainability and the implications for policy and investment.

He was the lead author of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport’s – Freight Vision 2035 and has recently worked on urban logistics development.  He is also the Chairman of LCP Consulting, an award winning supply chain and logistics consultancy.