Dr Laetitia Dablanc, Professor at the University Gustave Eiffel and head of the Logistics City Chair, discusses recent research she co-authored entitled "Response to COVID-19 lockdowns from urban freight stakeholders". We discuss:

• A survey focusing on labour, traffic, regulations, and any other issues relevant
• Need to adapt to the volatility and variability of e-commerce orders
• Delivering "essential" goods
• Home delivery vs out-of-home delivery, and the challenges of returning to residential delivery in areas where out-of-home dominated
• Productivity issues during lockdown
• Contactless delivery
• Robot delivery
• City plannings failing to integrate logistics into future plans
• Deliveries not transitioning from vans to cargo bikes
• Urban and suburban warehouses
• Urban hubs and local regulations
• Working conditions of gig economy delivery riders
• Precarious workers prepared to work in gig economy
• Speed of delivery and resulting increase in emissions
• Future protections of gig economy delivery workers