Facility lockers has entrusted TK'Blue Agency, a transport rating agency, with assessing the environmental and social performance of its secure, connected locker solution for businesses and public housing.

 

Facility lockers sets up ultra-secure, connected locker systems for parcel delivery close to e-commerce customers (collective lockers in apartment buildings or at the workplace).
This solution enables employees and residents to receive their parcels directly at their place of work or residence, thanks to a personalized access code transmitted by Facility lockers, without having to make a special trip. This means no delays due to absences, and delivery is secure and as close as possible to the recipient.

To assess the environmental and societal impact of this solution, TK'Blue Agency took into account two last-mile delivery scenarios using the most modern type of urban vehicle, Euro VI standard:

- Delivery to facility lockers, enabling delivery to be shared between a limited number of 10 lockers.
- A classic courier delivery method, including delivery to 150 sites located within the same geographical perimeter, and assuming that all deliveries are successful on the first attempt (favorable case).

To deliver 150 parcels, it takes an average of 10 stops with the facility lockers solution, i.e. 10 times less than with a door-to-door delivery scheme. In fact, this solution has a non-negligible positive economic impact for delivery companies (time, fuel costs, risks, etc.).

TK'Blue used the scenario of a 150 parcel delivery to calculate the costs of negative externalities: greenhouse gas emissions, noise, congestion, accidents, particulates, NOx, SOx, climate change and upstream/downstream impacts.

Table 1 shows the costs of these externalities for a conventional delivery of 150 parcels and delivery to 10 facility lockers that can hold 15 parcels simultaneously with Euro 5 vehicles. (Click to see the complete Euro VI study).

Because deliveries are pooled, the distance covered to deliver facility lockers is naturally much lower than for a conventional delivery, which has a very significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions (reduction of 731.8 gCO2e/package), but even greater for societal costs (noise, congestion, accidents, pollution, climate change and upstream-downstream) corresponding to a reduction of €0.38/package.
The TK'Blue methodology is the only one to provide an exhaustive approach to all externalities. It goes well beyond simple GHG emissions to consider societal costs, i.e. the real nuisances borne by citizens.

CEO of facility lockers " We're part of the last-mile strategy, the carbon impact and, above all, the servicing power of buildings. A real ecological choice, but above all one that makes people's lives easier by mastering the last mile for delivery of the 55 billion parcels that roam the planet ".

Philippe Mangeard, President and founder of the TK'Blue Agency comments: "The study carried out for facility lockers shows the importance of the difference in environmental and societal costs between two delivery methods. TK'Blue provides professionals with real-time tools for assessing the economic, environmental and societal performance of their transport choices... and for making the right decisions!"