Less traffic – less CO2

Logistics processes are essential for a functioning economy. In periods of climate change, the way they are organized has become an important question. Deutsche Telekom offers ICT-based services and solutions that help to optimize traffic flows and, where possible, avoid them completely.

Save time, costs, and CO2 – Deutsche Telekom offers video conferences as a climate-friendly alternative to business trips. More than 40,000 of these virtual meetings have already taken place at T-Mobile. This has saved over 7,000 tons of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere. This is roughly equivalent to the emissions from 1,000 incandescent lightbulbs left on continuously for eight years.

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Business trips not needed: Virtual conferences help cut CO2 emissions.

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Business trips not needed: Virtual conferences help cut CO2 emissions.

Optimal route management
The average car driver spends a full three days and nights every year in traffic jams. This means that 14 billion liters of fuel are used unnecessarily each year. Telematics solutions from T-Systems can optimize loading and route management for goods vehicles. This takes traffic off the roads and saves costs for logistics companies. Real-time route guidance via mobile phone helps people on the move avoid traffic jams and unnecessary diversions. Using free software, T-Mobile customers can turn their cell phone into a navigation device that helps them find their way even in unfamiliar locations.

DHL packstations
Across Germany, DHL now has around 1,500 “packstations” operating 24 hours a day. Customers are informed by e-mail or SMS text message once a package arrives for them at the automatic parcel machine. They can then collect the parcel from the packstation at any time of day or night. A further 1,000 packstations will be added by the end of 2009. T-Systems is making sure that they all operate smoothly. And also that millions of kilometers of road journeys are avoided each year. According to a study by the transportation and business consultants KE-Consult, DHL customers could save driving a total distance of 3.3 million kilometers in their cars each year. On top of this are a further 600,000 kilometers that DHL vehicles do not have to drive. The reason is that because parcels are delivered to the packstation in one go, the distances driven are reduced. In addition, parcel delivery vans increasingly find recipients are not at home, resulting in unnecessary journeys. Tests in Cologne show that many DHL customers pick up their parcel during a journey they would be making anyway, e.g. on the way to work or going shopping.