The author of 'Delivering the Future', David Jinks M.I.L.T., Parcelhero's Head of Consumer Research, says: 'Our report charts two horizons. Looking to 2030, it finds that the one-hour delivery slot, once a novelty, has become the baseline against which every new service is judged, with companies such as Gopuff already targeting 15-minute urban grocery delivery.
'The report examines the rapid growth of pavement delivery robots, the expansion of Amazon's Prime Air drone network in both the UK and US, and the arrival of autonomous trucks running fixed motorway routes between regional hubs. It reveals that the value of the global autonomous last-mile delivery market, currently around $28 billion, looks set to rocket to more than $228 billion by 2035.
'Looking further ahead, to 2060 and beyond, the report draws on long-range scenario work from organisations including the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the UK Government Office for Science, exploring possibilities ranging from underground automated freight networks and floating warehouses to a world where home '3D fabbing' replaces much of today's finished-goods delivery altogether.
'At the furthest edge of the report's scope, it even considers the theoretical – and currently very distant – possibility of quantum teleportation, following experiments that have already moved a particle's state reliably across three metres in a laboratory.
'The report also raises a striking near-term prediction: that delivery access itself could start to influence UK house prices, with well-served postcodes commanding a premium and properties under busy commercial drone routes potentially seeing the opposite effect – echoing the way broadband speed and mobile signal are already quietly factored into property decisions today.
The 'Delivering the Future' report is available now at https://www.parcelhero.com/en-gb/resources/ebooks/delivering-the-future
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