Express parcel delivery

Thanks to Internet shopping, a buoyant economy and the increase in home working, express parcel delivery and courier companies are seeing significant market growth. 

Key issues:

You may identify with some of the following:

• High driver turnover.
• Traffic congestion, already estimated to cost £20 billion per annum, is getting worse.
• Consumer home delivery returns are a major discontinuity in the supply chain.
• The industry is 50 000 drivers short and the age profile is rising.
• Insurance costs are rising at 20 % per annum.
• Finding a particular location can be hit and miss.
• Contract riders/drivers often don't know the area.

The solution

Geographic information can help by:

• enabling prompt delivery to the right doorstep;
• reducing the risk of non-delivery;
• helping to guarantee just-in-time delivery;
• capturing local knowledge, reducing the impact of driver turnover; and
• enabling analysis of route performance to optimise planning.

Interested? Please get in touch

We'd like to discuss your geographical information needs in greater detail. In the first instance, please email us and we'll get suggest how to take this forward.

Our offering

OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ Layer

An accurate, detailed and up-to-date digital map of Great Britain’s road structure, it comprises:

• The Roads Network – all navigable roads across Great Britain, from motorways to alleyways and
• Road Routing Information – route information such as width, weight and height restrictions that will assist your choice of route.

OS Mastermap Address Layer 2

Containing the precise coordinates of over 29 million residential and commercial properties in Great Britain, as well as structures without postal addresses, this provides the most accurate and up-to-date link between any address and its location.

Points of Interest

Classifying nearly 4 million geographic and commercial features across Great Britain, providing a location for each of them and including postal addresses where applicable, with this product you choose what you see on screen, such as all banks within the TW3 postcode district.

Our partners

You will need specialist software, often referred to as a geographical information system (GIS), to gain maximum benefit from our data products. Our partners provide services ranging from licensing off-the-shelf software right through to building you a bespoke solution that embeds our products.