Gnewt and Ford test a cloud service for multimodal delivery

On February 18, 2019 the Ford company reported that it in partnership with the delivery service of Gnewt tests in London of digital service which will allow to coordinate effectively several means of transport, including pedestrian couriers, and then and couriers by bicycles.

During the experiment the delivery service of "the last mile" will work with the help of the software of MoDe: Link, the logistic program with a possibility of creation of multimodal routes using cloud computing. MoDe: Link will help couriers, to managers of corporate vehicle fleets, the logistic companies and delivery services of food to optimize delivery processes, more effectively to use the park of vans, to save time and money at simultaneous increase in volume of the processed orders.

According to the concept "a warehouse on wheels" vans work as the dynamic centers of delivery which collect orders from a warehouse, and then for a while stop in the strategic points determined by the program as the most effective for full lot of orders. The patented software platform of Ford coordinates routes of the driver and the closest pedestrian couriers. By Ford estimates, one van and a team of four couriers on foot or by bicycle during the work as a part of multimodal network can deliver as much sendings, as five vans working independently.