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School: Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague (UMPRUM)

Our project addresses the critical challenge of urban supply logistics in metropolises.

Looking at how metropolises are growing and in which direction, we saw the supply of the centers of metropolises as a major problem.

Large expansive cities have a significant economy in their center, even surpassing

that of some entire countries, all packed within confined spaces.

The current supply method of supplying the centers of metropolises by having trucks, and other forms of freight transportation, driving through the entire city presents significant drawbacks, including congestion, economic inefficiency, ecological burden and visual disruptions to the city's infrastructure and overall life quality making the cities a less comfortable place to live in.

Our project brings a solution to these problems by moving most

of the uncomfortable and inefficient freight transportation below the city

and organizes the supply transportation in the streets above.

All that while focusing as well on bringing an organized, clean look to the streets

that is comfortable to look at and live around.

Our design approach proposes an alternative by harnessing the metro train, travelling underneath the city, as a means of supply, which, in addition to transporting people, would transport also products and supplies underneath the entire complex infrastructure of the city.

Instead of freight transportation driving through the entire city, supplies are loaded onto the metro train at the city’s outskirts in our designed modular supply box, and efficiently transported underground to the designated delivery area – without interference with the passengers.

There, at a metro station in the designated delivery area, our designed autonomous platform completes the final ground delivery after picking the cargo box up from the metro – from the other side of the station through an elevator.

Animation explaining the concept: https://youtu.be/XXNyCTNd8Us

Sustainable Development Goals:
Given the large capacity and weight of the metro train, our design approach does not affect the energy consumption or capacity of the metro train in any significant way. However, our approach removes a large amount of trucks and similar commercial vehicles having to drive through the entire city and, be stopping at every red light or in slow traffic. Effectively reducing the ecological burden of the supply by reducing emissions released by these vehicles, reducing the energy consumption, increasing the economic efficiency of the supply and reducing the visual disruption and congestion of the infrastructure.