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    E-commerce about to reshape our cities

    E-commerce changes our shopping habits – but also influences logistics, city planning and properties. The impact will become more and more apparent as volumes continue to increase.With e-commerce turnover increasing by 10-15 per cent per year, there is an ongoing structural shift in retail supply chains. From being a relatively predictable behaviour in respect to place and time, shopping has become far more complex and offers new challenges to urban planners, retailers and logistics companies. Challenges include supplying individual customers rather than replenishing stocks in stores,

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    Urban Insight report: Faster vehicles do not translate into shorter travel time

    Although we have the means to travel faster than we did 100 years ago, our average daily travel time remains constant.Over the past 200 years alone we have gone from walking, to horse riding, to train travel, to driving vehicles. But the time we allocate for everyday travel has not changed significantly. Through the 20th century, the daily distance travelled increased rapidly while travel time remained relatively constant at around 70–80 minutes. The Urban Insight report, Running to stand still – the role of travel time in transport planning, explores travel time and its relation to urban

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    Sweco launches Urban Insight and publishes first Urban Move report

    Under the new Urban Insight initiative, Sweco’s experts will explore ways in which various urban structures in Europe influence citizens’ ability to meet needs and preferences. The reports also describe how this ultimately influences the way urban areas are structured.“At Sweco, we want to actively participate in planning and designing a more sustainable future by contributing with our expertise. We love to explore how various urban structures in Europe influence citizens’ ability to meet needs and preferences and, ultimately, how this dictates the way we choose to structure urban areas.

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