The last mile has become the central issue in times of rising emissions, impending diesel driving bans, the expansion of pedestrian zones, the increasing desire to minimize traffic and not least also massively increasing customer requirements - keyword "same-day delivery". Suitable logistics space and logistics real estate are of primary importance for the new forms of urban logistics, and the interface in the transport chain is getting closer to and into the cities and sometimes directly to the customer.

Jürgen Schrampf of ECONSULT took over chairmanship and moderation at the imh conference "Logistics Real Estate" on February 27, 2018. The main content was the consideration of the new roles and functions of logistics real estate in connection with sustainable logistics solutions.

Exciting projects and concepts were presented and discussed - among others with experts from the real estate development, the electromobility research, with start-ups in the direct sales as well as the branch experts of UPS and DPD. The subject of micro-depot was discussed intensively, as there are already "lessons learned" from the first pilot projects and new concepts for the future.