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Freight facing the future
The freight and logistics industry is adapting to support modern London.
At a major conference held this week, TfL together with business leaders, operators, trade associations and local authorities discussed how to ensure the freight and logistics industry continues to support London as it changes and grows.
At present, over £200 billion of goods are moved on London's roads every year but With London's population continuing to grow at an unprecedented rate and TfL's ambitious £4bn Road Modernisation Plan dramatically changing the capital's road layout, careful planning is needed for the safe and efficient movement of increasing volumes of goods around the Capital.
TfL is working with its partners to change how deliveries are made, in particular retiming deliveries out of the peak hours of 07:00-13:00. This would lead to fewer wasted driver hours and fuel, reducing costs, lowering emissions and improving customer service. Removing large delivery vehicles from London's high streets during shopping hours also helps the retail sector by making shopping areas more pleasant places to be.
Other options include rerouting or consolidating deliveries into single trips saving businesses time and money.
London's Transport Commissioner, Sir Peter Hendy CBE, said: 'We all rely on freight and logistics to keep London thriving. We must build on all the work we did together during the London 2012 Games to make further progress on retiming outside the busiest times, rerouting and consolidating deliveries.
'This will mean less congestion, improved road safety and reduced costs for the industry and businesses.'
Further information is available on tfl.gov.uk/freight and tfl.gov.uk/roads.
