With the e-commerce boom, parcel deliveries in cities are constantly increasing (+10% per year). The question of access to goods in urban centres is crucial and the organisation of deliveries is central in the reflections of transport professionals and communities.
The EVOL (Logistics Development and Optimisation Spaces) consortium was launched in 2016, in response to the call for expressions of interest by Grenoble-Alpes Métropole and the Syndicat Mixte des Transports en Commun (public transport joint association). This consortium, managed by Le Groupe La Poste, brought together urban logistics actors in the local economy. In 2017, EVOL became a company. It opened up to shareholder investment (Le Groupe La Poste, the Caisse des Dépôts, the Les Mousquetaires group, Cet ’up, GNVert, GEG, FNTR and Vélocité Services) and became Urby.
On Friday 22 February 2019 in Grenoble, Anne-Sophie Louvat, President of Urby Grenoble, and all of the shareholder bodies launched Urby, in the presence of Philippe Wahl, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Le Groupe La Poste, Christophe Ferrari, President of Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, Yann Mongaburu, President of the SMTC and Eric Piolle, Mayor of Grenoble.