| The winners of the DHL Innovation Contest awarded |
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11/02/2012 03:07 (102 Day 10:24 minutes ago) | |||||
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The FINANCIAL -- DHL, the world's leading logistics company, yesterday identified the winners of last year’s Innovation Contest and handed over the awards to the first- and second-place winners at the DHL Innovation Center.
Being the first company in the industry to implement the well-known academic model “Open Innovation”, DHL aimed to gather new ideas, unusual solutions and environmentally friendly appliances with a focus on “City Logistics” from scientists, politicians, IT experts and other participants. According to DHL, in total, 300 people from 170 countries submitted approximately 160 ideas during the sixweek contest. Schmulik Goldfisher from Israel was a double winner, enjoying success in the categories "Green Cities" and "Digital Logistics." The jury felt that the best idea in the category "Improving Cities Efficiency through Logistics" came from Felix Häser of Germany.
Felix Häser developed the so-called "collaborative logistics hubs", which aims to reduce inner-city traffic. Here, a city defines transfer points which are built on the city limits. All delivery companies are obliged to approach them. At the transfer points the goods are consolidated and then transported by only one exclusive delivery company like DHL via electric vehicles to inner city recipients. Trips are kept to a minimum through efficient consolidation and intelligent route guidance, thereby reducing the traffic burden on inner cities. The jury evaluated Häser’s idea as "inspiring and scalable" and saw it as a "fundamental change from a push to a pull system."
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