Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) holds responsibility for the entire provincial territory, which spans a total area of 5,343 km2 and 39 district municipalities. IMM is responsible for a wide variety of areas including environment, natural-gas supply, energy, infrastructure, planning and development, IT, transportation, community services and vocational education, healthwellness, food & catering, culture, tourism, etc.
IMM is the principal public body in planning, design, implementation and operation of transportation sector in Istanbul with a number of affiliated companies that are responsible for transportation sector of planning, land use and integration with other sectors, traffic regulation and transportation in different modalities from active mobility to logistic. The city itself is one of the regions where the densest vertical urbanization is observed not only in Europe but also in the globe.
Use case(s) description
Our three use cases developed for the Istanbul Living Lab involved main food distributor of the city: Migros. As member of the project’s consortium, Migros has the strong will to optimise its operations and reduce the carbon footprint of its deliveries.
Use case(s) Infographics
Our first use case is focused on developing dedicated optimisation tools based on their current operations. Those optimisation tools are there to i. improve the environmental performance of the current Migros’ operations and ii. Prepare for the integration of cargo-bikes into the delivery’s schemes of the company. Thanks to dedicated cycle-logistics digital tools, Migros will deliver its instant food deliveries with cargo-bikes instead of motorbikes.
Timeline
2023
