This post was originally written by Bax & Company consultant David Fernández for Parcel and Postal Technology magazine. COVID-19 has caused short-term disruptions and long-term structural changes in many sectors, and urban logistics is no exception. E-commerce has experienced soaring growth, particularly for groceries and home care, as a result…

“it is possible that we will experience 100x in computation capacity in the next 10–15 years”. Bax & Company’s Marc Verbenkov takes a deep dive into exponential technological growth and why many people might continue to suffer from ‘future shock’. If you have had any recent discussions about the speed…

by David Fernández & Ignacio Magallón THE FUTURE OF URBAN LOGISTICS With a growing global population concentrated in cities, urban freight transport (UFT) — defined as all movements of goods into, out from, through or within the urban area — is broadly recognised as a fundamental part of economic trade. This growing number of vehicle…

What does the future of blockchain look like? There has been much discussion around the so-called “competition” between public and private blockchains. Public blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are transparent, open, distributed ledgers, in principle for anonymous or pseudonymous participants. Private blockchains such as Corda and Hyperledger integrate certain…

Opening up data doesn’t automatically lead to a better public service delivery. Cities should know that, when looking at public service innovation, there are several benefits to applying a challenge-driven approach. …

Bax & Company is proud to announce its collaboration with international mobility expert Nico Larco (Principal and Partner of Larco/Knudson, Professor at University of Oregon and Director of the Urbanism Next Center) to work with Rotterdam on their urban mobility innovation programme. by Giel Mertens, Nico Larco & Rolf Bastiaanssen …

“Steering the development of (new) digital mobility (services) towards achieving sustainability goals and greater social inclusion is key to enabling new opportunities for everyone and widening social uptake”. by Albert Serra, Nacho Sarrió & Ignacio Magallon The introduction of digital technologies to mobility (services) has led to many positive outcomes…

In this edition of Beyond Bax, we speak to Jordi Jacas Biendicho, a staff scientist at IREC (the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research) and coordinator of COBRA, a new European initiative on next-generation sustainable lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries. …

In collaboration with Additive Manufacturing expert at Sirris, Benjamin Denayer, we’ve outlined some of the main barriers hindering the adoption of 3D printing and ways we can overcome them in the next few years. by Maarten Buysse, Benjamin Denayer & Ignacio Magallon Additive manufacturing (AM), perhaps more commonly known as…