Curbing delivery hassles — At Your Doorstep

If you live in a city, one of the most frustrating things is traffic being blocked by a big delivery truck taking up a full lane on a busy street. That is a problem one company is hoping to solve with its curbside management program. 

Coord CEO Stephen Smyth joins Kaylee Nix on this episode of At Your Doorstep to explain how smart zones are helping businesses in cities schedule delivery times to minimize traffic blockage and maximize efficiency. 

Coord’s program allows users to schedule time at a...

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Parking pilot keeps commercial deliveries flowing on Aspen city streets

Aspen tests smart parking pilot program for delivery vehicles

In 2019, a record $7.9 billion was spent on Cyber Monday, and that followed an Amazon sales record over the traditional Thanksgiving weekend shopping period. Online shopping that year reached $126 billion, a record at the time.

The result of that was a 5% increase in e-commerce deliveries year-over-year, according to professor José Holguín-Veras, director of the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems at New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The professor told Curbed...

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