More than half of the world’s population live in urban areas. In Europe, the proportion is over eighty per cent. Supplying all these people with the stuff they need is a huge undertaking. In the Paris region alone, some 4.3 million deliveries are made every week. It’s everything from fish fingers to face packs, from pharmaceuticals to photocopiers, from books to boots to beef to bags to batting bats. We could go on.
In the 2022 Toyota Logistic Design Competition we’re asking you to get your head around the enormous issues involved in urban micrologistics. And suggesting ways of dealing with the rising problems. As well as improving expediency. The stumbling blocks we’re up against when it comes to urban logistics are many and variegated. For one thing, cities are getting more and more congested, so cars are increasingly banned in city centres. This move is also a way of combatting pollution.
Eligibility
The competition is open to university design students and recent graduates (2021), from all over the world. Only participants who belong to an undergraduate or graduate university programme are eligible to compete. Although the competition is focused on industrial design, product design and transportation design, students with a background in business, fashion, engineering, architecture etc. are also welcome to submit their work.
Theme
This year’s theme is urban micrologistics. We’d like you to think of ways of dealing with the ever-increasing sea of goods hitting our cities. The staggering number of deliveries needs new and better solutions. Integrating micrologistics with micromobility, is one way of looking at it.
Register
Get access to detailed instructions
Design
Create an effective and sustainable urban micrologistics solution
Submit
Upload your submission by the deadline, 19 October
Develop
Finalists develop further their submission with the help of the expert jury
Verdict
The jury announces the winners
Prizes
First Prize: €5,000
Second Prize: €3,000
Third Prize: €2,200
The deadline to submit your entry is 19 October 2021.
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