Expected Outcome

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Take up and upscaling of innovative, best practice and replicable data driven logistics solutions and planning in the living labs¹ involved in the proposals, while facilitating the common lesson drawing and learning at European level, in order to contribute to the priorities of the European Green Deal, which stresses that ‘’transport should become drastically less polluting, especially in cities".² This action supports city sustainability targets such as climate neutrality, road safety, improved air quality, reduced congestion and better use of public space.
  

• Optimal mix distribution of land uses both in city centres and peripheries looking at the preferred rationales for achieving the best combination of residential, commercial, leisure and industrial space to reach the most sustainable mobility patterns according to the available and future transport supply and demand.³
  

• Improved local authority capacity in the managing and collection of data, estimation and measurements of the impacts achieved by new measures and if a regulation is needed to ensure this happening.

• Valorisation of data and information gathered for urban freight to better understand the impact of e-commerce on non-sustainable delivery patterns as “just in time” deliveries are producing longer and more trips with more and emptier Light Duty Vehicles (LDV), potentially leading to more congestion, pollution, Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and road risk in urban areas.
  

• Optimise the potential mix of strategically positioned land, owned by public authorities (unused railway tracks and marshalling yards, real estate, parking) or by logistics service providers in urban areas, for developing a comprehensive policy strategy integrating transport, logistics and land use. The scope of this exercise includes the roll-out of new modes (such as drones) and increasing use of sustainable modes (waterways and rail). Better understand the impact of increasing transport and logistics patterns on the climate and environment, resilience and robustness of the transport network and the urban infrastructure. This exercise addresses as well the increasing impact of new modes, such as drones, cargo bicycles and vehicles on alternative fuels.
  

• Optimize shared transport facilities for goods through smart solutions.

• Improved space management and urban planning focusing on the “new normal” after the Covid-19 pandemic considering how cities are optimising their planning and allocation of space.

• Demonstrate and deploy economically viable and sustainable solutions driven by relevant technologies (e.g. real-time traffic information, space management, floating car data) and demonstrate the convenience of consolidation, consistent with the full planning of loading and unloading spaces, to deliver the services and the goods.

• New or upgraded sustainable urban logistics plan that includes the main stakeholders (cities, logistics operators, couriers, postal services, real estate and/or retail industries) and addresses to a minimum: development of safe and sustainable logistics and delivery models in cities, low emission zones, data collection and usage, consolidation and space management, clean and alternative vehicles, stakeholders dialogue, e-commerce.

¹ At least 3 living lab cities should be in included as demonstrators of the innovative solutions.
² https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:b828d165-1c22-11ea-8c1f-01aa75ed71a1.0002.02/DOC_1&format=PDF
³ These patterns are data supported, by collecting and analysing freight data.