FEED HUB & SPOKE: Food & Essentials E-Delivery with High-street Hubs

饲料中心和辐条项目引入了一种创新的方法，结合了：*云厨房*协同工作空间*食品和包裹联合递送*互联和自动驾驶车辆(CAV)和无人机*零碳递送**中心**将通过将陷入困境的餐厅转变为一种新的商业模式来重振商业街。目前，餐馆只提供一种菜肴(如希腊菜)，在后厨准备，在前排供应。这是一个高开销的提议，灵活性有限，依赖于快速的客户周转和巨大的人均支出。在Hub模式中，背面被转换为共享厨房空间，多个供应商可以在其中工作，并由云厨房网络支持，以实现更多食物种类。前面被改造成协同工作空间，提高了空间利用率，食物可以在那里消费(从这个枢纽或相关的云厨房)。这将支持新的分散劳动力和初创企业提高生产率，同时全天提供收入(不仅仅是在午餐和晚餐时)。所需的运营人员最少，从而降低了成本。**Spoke**是一个紧凑的提货和订购亭，具有集成的支付方式。辐条是商业园、科技园甚至公共场所的理想选择，它允许食品和货物的交付聚合，打破了目前快递员分别交付每个订单的模式，这会导致拥堵并增加成本。轮辐将使任何共享空间都能转变为就餐区，目前这种模式仅在市中心与餐馆相邻时才尝试。辐条将连接到创新网络中的枢纽，该网络旨在通过货物整合、利益相关者之间的协作以及创新工具和交付系统的使用，实现流量的优化(例如，减少成本、时间和污染排放)。这些将得到以下支持：1)**AirB2B平台**：使专业空间(如协同工作空间、云厨房空间或会议室)能够轻松租赁的平台。这将使餐厅、大学、社区中心等能够共享他们的厨房空间，用户可以预订中心共同工作空间。食品供应商将接受尽职调查，并能够通过现有的Feed应用程序供应枢纽、辐条或直接交付给消费者。作为下一步，我们还将与其他共同工作空间、会议室或工作室提供商联系。AirB2B平台旨在利用商业空间的闲置容量，降低远程工作和新业务的障碍。2)**零碳车队**：在我们的运营中，我们已经通过电动汽车和电子货运自行车以及无人机交付试验(VLOS)来交付食物和必需品。我们将探索CAV的可行性，并扩展我们的无人机分析3)**Feed B2C平台(现有)**供客户在中心或家中订购。这个雄心勃勃的多方面项目将是与设计咨询公司40Two合作开发的AirB2B平台的试点，在牛津的One Business Park对CAV热食品递送的试验和评估(在RACE，Culham)，最后在牛津或伦敦推出一个中心来测试和验证该模型。

The FEED HUB & SPOKE project introduces an innovating approach combining:* Cloud Kitchens* Coworking Spaces* Food & Parcel Combined Deliveries* Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and Drones* Zero-Carbon DeliveriesThe **HUB** will revitalise the high street by converting struggling restaurants into a new commercial model. Currently, restaurants are serving one cuisine (eg Greek), which is being prepared at the back (kitchen) and served at the front. This is a high-overhead proposition, with limited flexibility relying on rapid customer turnover with significant spend per head. In the HUB model, the back is converted into a shared kitchen space where multiple vendors can work and is supported by a network of cloud kitchens for greater food variety. The front is converted into co-working spaces, increasing space utilisation, where food can be consumed (from this HUB or associated cloud kitchens). This will support the new decentralised workforce and start-ups to be productive while providing income throughout the day (not only at lunch&dinner). The operational staff required is minimal, thus reducing costs.The **SPOKE** is a compact pickup and ordering kiosk with an integrated payment method. Ideal for business parks, science parks or even public places, the SPOKE allows food and freight deliveries to be aggregated, disrupting the current model where couriers deliver each order separately, which causes congestion and increases costs. SPOKEs will enable any shared space to be transformed into an eating area, a model currently tried in city centres only when adjacent to restaurants. SPOKEs will be connected to HUBs in an innovative network that will be designed to enable the optimisation of flows (e.g. reduced costs, times, polluting emissions) through consolidation of goods, collaboration among stakeholders, and the use of innovative tools and delivery systems.These will be supported by:1) **AirB2B platform**: is a platform to enable easy renting of professional spaces, such as co-working spaces, cloud kitchen spaces or meeting rooms. This will enable restaurants, colleges, community centres etc to share their kitchen space and users to book HUB co-working space. Food vendors will undergo due-diligence and be able to supply HUBs, SPOKEs or direct to consumer delivery via the existing FEED app. We will also liaise with other co-working space, meeting room or studio providers as the next step. The AirB2B platform aims to enable access to the spare capacity of commercial spaces and reduce the barriers to remote working and new business.2) **Zero-Carbon Fleet**: in our operations, we already deliver food & essentials through a combination of EV and e-cargo bikes, and drone delivery trials (VLOS). We will explore the feasibility of CAVs and expand our drone analysis3) **FEED B2C platform (existing)** for customers to order in HUBs or home.This ambitious multi-faceted project will a pilot of the AirB2B platform, developed in collaboration with a Design Consultancy 40Two, a SPOKE in one business Park in Oxford, Trial and evaluation of a CAV hot food delivery (at RACE, Culham) and finally launch a HUB to test and validate the model in Oxford or London.