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Innovation in Transport Logistics:

Drivers and Implications

Sophie Punte, Executive Director, Smart Freight Center

Presented at Transforming Transportation 2017

Innovation in Transport Logistics:

Drivers and Implications

Transforming Transportation

January 2017

Sophie PunteExecutive Director

Smart Freight Centre

Founded Smart Freight Centre in 2013 as a mission driven organization to

catalyze more efficient and environmentally sustainable freight at a global

scale

Clean Air Asia – Executive Director: green freight on the agenda of Asian

governments and establishing the China Green Freight Initiative and

Green Freight Asia

Various posts at the United Nations, KPMG, New Zealand Ministry of

Environment, and an engineering firm on environmental management and

corporate sustainability

Master of Science (Biology) and a Master of Environmental Management

from the Netherlands

Works and lived in Europe, Asia and Pacific and Latin America

Areas for innovation in logistics

Vehicles, Vessels

& FuelsTransport SystemFreight Movement

INNOVATION

PoliciesTechnologies Business models

Vehicles/Vessels and Fuels

Long trucks, platooning,

self driving trucks

Alternative fuels

Slow steaming, Low S

fuel, cold ironing

Truck technologies

Vehicle emissions

Freight movement

3D printing

Convertible trucks

Transport Management

Systems

Logistics platforms

Cross-dockingRerouting

Transport system

New modes

Mode shift and electrification of urban freight

Modal shift and SynchromodalityRestructure logistics

supply chains Freight corridors

Talking about drivers, disruption and

the need for innovation

Innovation in Logistics

Drivers of innovation

Implications for the sector and society at large

Applications in developing countries

Examples

Freight corridors

Urban ‘last mile’ freight delivery

Freight consolidation and multimodality

Vehicles, Vessels

& FuelsTransport SystemFreight Movement

Barbara MommenCEO

Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative

Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative (MCLI) – Joined in 2006 as Chief of

Operations and was appointed CEO in 2011

Regional economic development issues and enabling the link between

strategy and policy with implementation

Facilitation, stakeholder engagement and trade and transport corridor

development

Passionate about seeing Africa's development benefit marginalized

communities.

Lowveld Chamber of Business – Business Manager

Recipient of British Council Fellowship

Senior Management Certificate from the University of Manchester’s

Institute for Development and Policy Management

Evgenia EpaneshnikovaTransport Specialist

World Bank Group

World Bank Group - Transport Specialist

Urban transport, asset management and trade and transport corridor

development issues across countries in South East European and

Central Asian countries.

St Petersburg Research Institute of Urban Planning – Transport Planner

Developing mass transit systems and analyzing social and distributional

impacts of improved accessibility.

Master degrees Urban Engineering from St Petersburg University of

Architecture and Civil Engineering; Development Studies from Oxford

University; Finance from George Washington University

Pablo GuerreraSenior Transport Specialist

Inter-American Development Bank

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) – Senior Transport Specialist

Coordinating the strategic area of freight logistics at the IDB

Investment portfolio and technical assistance operations in Latin American countries

at national, provincial and municipal level.

Projects on logistics and freight transport, transport infrastructure, rail infrastructure,

urban development and sustainable transport policies.

Current freight and logistics projects:

Public policy and institutional strengthening for public sector agencies

Network of national and regional observatories for freight transport and logistics

Development of a methodology to estimate the impact of congestion on city logistics

Previously with World Bank and private consulting firms in the field of transport

infrastructure

Bernard ArituaSenior Infrastructure Specialist

World Bank Group

World Bank Group - Senior Infrastructure Specialist in the Transport & ICT

Global practice

Infrastructure development

Strategic issues related to multimodal transport, freight and logistics

services

Led and provided technical input on large and complex projects in various

countries and regions including: UK, Germany, Eastern Europe, Africa,

Middle East, India and China

Various positions in the private and public sector.

Chartered Engineer with a PhD in Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, UK

Golf lover!

Jeroen HaverGeneral Secretary

Holland Logistics Network

Senior Advisor & Sector Specialist Logistics with the

Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA)

Promotion of Dutch logistics sector abroad

Coordinates the execution of the international strategy of the Top team

Logistics

Focus: investments/acquisitions, gateway development and the export &

promotion of expertise, knowledge and solutions

World Bank - seconded Transport & Logistics Specialist

Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment – various positions on Mobility and

Urban Planning

Various positions in private sector and not-for-profit-sector in the fields of

transport & logistics, pharmaceutics and knowledge development

MSc, Transport Planning & Management, University of Westminster