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- What retailers, hospitals, hospitality businesses, construction sites and public services need from a city freight strategy
- How priorities in London’s Logistics Plan connect to practical decisions about access, infrastructure and investment
- The delivery responsibilities and measures that turn policy ambitions into better service for businesses and residents
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- Distinguish adopted planning requirements from emerging proposals for industrial land, freight capacity and the needs created by new housing
- How relocating or losing logistics space affects delivery distances, service costs and neighbouring areas
- The evidence occupiers, developers and boroughs need to contribute to the emerging plan and support current planning decisions
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- How predicted deliveries should shape loading space, vehicle access and receiving arrangements before occupation
- Who takes responsibility for booking, enforcement and monitoring when designers and contractors hand over
- What actual delivery patterns reveal about plans that need changing once a site is in use
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- Which goods, volumes and delivery windows can support a dependable river service
- How wharf access, handling, storage and final delivery determine whether a multimodal freight service is dependable
- Where river freight can compete on reliability, road movements and total cost – and what limits its use
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- When shipment size, frequency and consolidation make rail a practical part of an urban supply chain
- What terminal access, handling and onward distribution must deliver to meet the customer’s schedule
- Compare road-only and rail-linked routes on cost, reliability and road mileage, including every transfer and final-mile movement
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- How delivery bookings, supplier coordination and consolidation can adapt to changing phases of a live project
- Where better materials handling and safer access reduce disruption to site teams, neighbours and road users
- What vehicle movements, waiting time and site productivity reveal about the value of the logistics plan
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- Which baseline measures capture the effects on traffic, safety, emissions and local businesses
- How to distinguish a real improvement from activity moved to another street, time or operator
- Choose proportionate measures that help funders and communities decide whether a scheme should continue, change or stop
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- How an estate maps demand across occupiers and sets booking, security and receiving arrangements that suppliers can follow
- Where shared receiving and internal distribution reduce queues and duplicate journeys without delaying essential goods
- What an estate operator needs to measure about supplier waiting, staff time and service continuity before expanding the model
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- What customer commitments and income streams make a shared hub or loading facility investable
- How leases, user charges and public support affect the asset’s cash flow and funding options
- Where construction, demand and long-term ownership risks should sit before investment is committed
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- How to establish the logistics capacity new homes and businesses need before industrial land changes use
- Where co-location, intensification or a separate logistics site offers the most workable solution
- What planners, developers and occupiers must agree about access, neighbours and long-term operating needs
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- How to balance loading with passenger transport, walking, cycling and accessible street space
- What operators and local businesses can reveal about the location and timing of unmet loading demand
- Which allocation and enforcement choices improve access without simply displacing the problem
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- Why goods-in space, parcel storage, lifts and internal distribution can determine how long a vehicle stays outside
- How booking, secure access and staffed or unattended receiving work across homes, offices and public estates
- Which retrofit changes can improve delivery flow without requiring a complete redesign of the building
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- Which deliveries can move earlier, later or overnight once receiving staff, access and neighbours are considered
- How quiet equipment, secure handover and permissions make a different delivery window practical
- Where journey-time and reliability gains outweigh additional receiving costs – and how to prove that in a trial
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- How surveys of access, floor loading, power and fire safety determine whether a building can support a new logistics use
- Which physical upgrades, permissions and landlord agreements must be resolved before occupation
- What conversion cost, usable capacity and time to operation reveal about the case for retrofit rather than relocation
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- Which occupier needs and rental assumptions justify the extra cost of building logistics space upwards or alongside other uses
- How floor loading, vehicle access, noise and operating hours affect design and lettability
- What investors and occupiers can learn from the trade-offs between new development and retrofit
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- How councils, universities and public estates can coordinate ordering and delivery frequency across departments
- What changes when receiving and transport costs are considered alongside the purchase price
- How to turn the buyer’s delivery requirements into a workable tender, supplier mobilisation plan and service measures that smaller suppliers can meet
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- How clinical priorities determine the timing, reliability and handling of supplies, specimens and equipment
- Where consolidation, better replenishment and specialist transport can reduce urgent journeys without putting supply continuity at risk
- What patient-facing services need from the logistics evidence before a new operating model is extended
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- Which goods and routes justify an air service once urgency, payload, weather and the ground alternative are considered
- How operating approvals, secure landing sites, custody and ground handovers shape a dependable end-to-end service
- What a buyer must establish about completed deliveries, fallback arrangements and full cost before extending a trial
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- How narrow receiving windows and fluctuating demand shape deliveries of food, linen and event supplies
- Where coordinated schedules or shared receiving can reduce disruption for neighbouring premises
- What better logistics means for service continuity, waste and the time staff spend handling deliveries
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- What drivers need to know about loading rules and availability before committing to a stop
- How to connect booking, sensing and enforcement with dispatch tools, allowing for integration costs, staff training and support
- Which measures show that digital management improves loading and dwell time, including effects on nearby streets
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- Whose delivery, access and amenity needs are easily missed when a local scheme is designed
- How trials and direct involvement can resolve concerns before new loading rules or routes become permanent
- What feedback and review arrangements help businesses and residents see whether their concerns have been addressed
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- What shipment volumes, customer commitments and service requirements support a dependable consolidation operation
- How fewer deliveries at the destination compare with the extra handling, premises and onward transport needed
- Which charging and service arrangements give customers a reason to join – and remain paying users
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- Which waste, recycling, repair and reuse collections can share urban logistics capacity, including returns of reusable packaging
- When collections can share routes with deliveries, and where segregation, handling or receiver requirements call for a separate service
- Assess whether collection density, service income and recovered value cover the full cost of moving materials through the city
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- What must be agreed before a pilot ends about ownership, procurement and the organisation responsible for continuing service
- How authorities, operators and customers turn trial evidence into a funded operating commitment
- Why some projects are extended, redesigned or stopped – and which lessons another city can use
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- Which decisions about hub locations, infrastructure capacity or street use can benefit from shared data and modelling
- How authorities and operators can exchange usable data across systems while addressing commercial sensitivity and the limits of AI predictions
- What decision-makers need to know about accuracy, explainability and ongoing cost before acting on a model
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- Where consistent access information, data and service arrangements can make cross-boundary operations easier
- How neighbouring authorities can coordinate decisions while accounting for different streets, land and local demand
- What a shared delivery plan needs from its owners, funding and performance measures to work beyond a single pilot area
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9 - 10 June 2027
London, Excel
London, Excel
9 - 10 June 2027
London, Excel
London, Excel