Saba Barcelona Bamsa Passeig de Gràcia-Consell de Cent, Barcelona
A meeting point of sustainable services
Saba is at the threshold of the explosion of a new mobility ecosystem. In this scenario, the company is working to convert the car park into a mobility services hub for people and goods, especially for so-called last-mile logistics. Facilities converted into a mobility “meeting point” but, above all, a dynamic, connected space concentrating new uses that go beyond what has traditionally been the car park sector.
Changes in people’s mobility habits generate new needs, favoured both by the emergence of new technologies and by the use of personal and active means of micro-mobility, significant growth in electric mobility, the expansion of car sharing or intermodality, among others.
Saba has also noted in recent years how electronic commerce has seen growth of 20% year on year, boosted by the pandemic, with an increase in the mobility of goods that is unsustainable due to its impact on road congestion and the environment.
A major recharging network with products for short-stay and subscribers.
Sharing and rent-a-car services
All the modes in the sector in most of our markets
Urban distribution of goods
Micro-hubs for 100%-sustainable distribution. Geever model
Ecommerce lockers
Agreements with the main companies in the sector.
Electronic access, exit and payment
Number plate reading, OBE and QR.
Web and ecommerce App
Strategic commitment to digitizing the business.
Mobile coverage
Enabling deployment of value-added services.
Remote management
Allowing for uninterrupted high-quality customer service.
LED lighting
LED, guiding, accompanying light. Dynamic and adaptive.
A Sustainable Services Hub
Technological advances have enabled infrastructures such as Saba’s to multiply their service capacity to the city and citizens and transform them into the instrument that resolves the balance between two fundamental rights: the individual right to mobility and the citizen’s right to high-quality urban space, as well as improving efficiency of mobility by thinning heavy traffic.
Number plate reading
Electric mobility
Intermodality
Saba's ecommerce
*By the date of 31/12/2022
Without tickets, payment machines or waiting
Saba introduced number plate reading in 2020 as a new method of car park entrance, exit and payment. It was a technological revolution that represented a paradigm shift. After deployment of the service in Spain, this technology is expected to reach the entire network. In this way, not only does Saba have the chance to get to know its customers better and to promote new loyalty programs, as well as to customize the products it can offer, but it applies one of its maxims: offering the best customer service by making parking even easier.
*By the date of 31/12/2022
Access
Exit and payment
Access
Exit and payment
Experience
100% digital and contactless
Experience
100% digital and contactless
Saba App
Registration and management through the Saba App
Saba App
Registration and management through the Saba App
Car parks
72 (+12%)
Operations
+169%
*By the date of 31/12/2022
A benchmark in impelling electric mobility
Car parks provide a great opportunity for offering electric charging point infrastructure, for all vehicles, private, shared and fleets, in the different modes – fast and semi-fast – and for all needs, whether they are isolated demand or from subscribers; in cases where the car is in the car park overnight or remains there while its owner works.
This is a major strategic commitment for Saba, a service in which the company has been innovating since 2018. It currently has one of the largest networks in the sector, with the capacity to respond to the future of the electric automotive industry.
In addition, Saba launched ParkElectric on the market in 2020. This is the first product to provide charging for users with no private charger for their electric vehicle at home. This solution not only manages to cover demand from short-stay customers, who can make casual use of chargers, but also from subscribers, by offering a linked charging service.
Private (rotation and subscribers), sharing fleets
Vehicles
Private (rotation and subscribers), sharing fleets
Agreements
With the main operators
Agreements
With the main operators
600
electric charging points
6
countries
818,000 kWh
provided
Intermodality as a fundamental focus in car parks
Car parks let owners conceal their cars, they facilitate efficient movement in full coordination with the other means of transport, in a regime of intermodality, contributing to thinning heavy traffic and reducing emissions.
Saba conceives of its infrastructures as mobility exchange points by integrating all modes of transport (bicycles, scooters, motorcycles and cars), whether for personal or shared use; and in many cases it also plays a fundamental role in intermodality with public transport (railway/metro/bus stations/airports), taking advantage of its privileged locations. Society and those who define mobility policies need to understand how to assess the potential of “invisible” infrastructures at prime locations properly to promote truly sustainable and balanced mobility between private and public transport.
*By the date of 31/12/2022
Saba’s ecommerce enters a new dimension
Digital tools, such as Saba’s ecommerce platforms (Web and Saba App), have continued to increase their strategic weight in the company, as they have to support greater demand from users.
The significant growth in on-line product sales has been consolidated in recent years, a change in consumer trends to which Saba continues to adapt. The company, aware of the importance of these new digital channels at the Group’s global level, continues to improve its platforms with new functionalities and improved design.
*By the date of 31/12/2022
Web and App
2.7115,200+53%
+139%+111,000+41,000
The car park as an urban node for goods
Saba is convinced it will be able to assist in management of more sustainable Last Mile Deliveries (LMD). It proposes two lines of action to achieve this: the creation of micro-hubs for distribution of local goods, and mass deployment of lockers for collection and delivery of ecommerce products.
LMD
What is Geever
Success case
Lockers
The impact of LMD in large cities
Saba boosts distribution by taking advantage of Saba car parks’ unbeatable locations in town and city centres. It is a firm proposal that requires the commitment of municipal and supramunicipal institutions so that, together with private operators such as Saba, but also many others, what has become the leading mobility problem in modern cities can be reversed.
40%20%78%
A sustainable urban logistics model
Car parks are ideal havens to be used as mini-hubs in distribution. Currently, in the city of Barcelona, there is a 100%-sustainable project entitled Geever, a last-mile logistics operator in which Saba has had a shareholding since 2021.
Advantages of the Geever model
How it works?
With micro-hubs distributed in car parks (principally), storage rooms and commercial premises covering areas with a maximum radius of 750 metres, with means of active and personal micro-mobility (bicycles, scooters, carts, etc.) and with full integration with the neighbourhood and its citizens, through the “neighbourhood delivery person”.
Modern car parks need to find new ways of relating to the city and its inhabitants, who will not always be customers. It is in this conception of the city, aware of how the car park is a valuable space for it, that Saba makes services such as lockers, also known as ecommerce lockers, available to all. Available in Spain, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom, Saba works with the main companies in the sector to offer this value-added service to its users.
Promoting the culture of collecting Internet purchases at e-commerce lockers – which also allow for returns – reduces city centre traffic and pollution, in line with sustainable micro-distribution.
*By the date of 31/12/2022
Integrated lockers
For package collection and delivery
Integrated lockers
For package collection and delivery
Micro-warehouses
With packages being unloaded at off-peak times
Micro-warehouses
With packages being unloaded at off-peak times
Electric vans
Transport the packages to the car park
Electric vans
Transport the packages to the car park
Home delivery
Through sustainable means in nearby areas and time slots adapted to the customer
Home delivery
Through sustainable means in nearby areas and time slots adapted to the customer
