Smart City Logistics: Recommendations for the City of Prague

Abstract

This review paper gives a brief introduction to Smart City Logistics and uses different sources to ultimately present recommendations for Prague city to achieve better solutions in the area. With large numbers of people expected to move to cities in the coming thirty years, smart logistics will become even more important than it is today. Four different projects from three different cities in Europe are described, ITSLOG and SAILOR projects from Amsterdam, SmartPort from Hamburg and the Dachser project from Stuttgart. The benefits and learnings from these projects are presented with an additional SWOT-analysis which presents the opportunities and threats that could come with similar implementations in Prague. Recommendations based on the findings regarding smart loading zones, micro-hubs, and virtual depots and how they could be implemented in Prague are made. It turns out that their implementation could give several benefits for Prague and help the city become more smart, both in terms of logistics, but also in other ways.