CITY FREIGHT proposed a comparison of innovations in freight transport in Europe. The project considered not only new logistic technologies and their internal efficiency but also some other measures to discourage some types of goods vehicles to enter to the city centre as well as to influence positively the freight transportdemand patterns. Cities of seven countries have collaborated in building realistic deployment scenarios to achieve CITY FREIGHT’s goals.
CITYLAB developed knowledge and solutions to create free city logistics in urban centres by 2030. The project focused on four pillars of action and their impact related to the topic MG-5.2 objectives. CITYLAB improved basic knowledge regarding freight distribution and service trips in urban areas thanks to a platform aimed to replicate and spread 7 innovative solutions. The concept of Living Labs, compared to conventional demonstrations, created an empiric environment in which stakeholders (such as citizens, governments, industry and research) wanted to achieve a shared long-term goal. The outputs from the living labs included best practice guidance and how to replicate them in relation to the knowledge and solutions generated to increase efficiency and load factors of freight transport in urban areas and to reduce the negative impacts of freight activities. The collaborative environment achieved from planning, improving and evaluating the real- life implementations were a major leap forward from the traditional city logistics initiatives. In conclusion, the Living Lab approach focused more on the city environment to demonstrate the feasibility of a short-term test pilot.
VitalNodes built a lasting European network of key stakeholders to increase and to apply a proven approach for the optimisation of economic, social and environmental liveability of urban areas considering multimodal transport infrastructure. VitalNodes delivered evidence-based recommendations for more cost efficient and sustainable integration of all 88 urban nodes in the TEN-T network corridors. The project presented five alternatives for a possible structure of a lasting Vital Nodes network, from little (ad-hoc) coordination between the members as well as a full controlled independent network with a management board, secretariat, etc. The objective was to integrate urban nodes in the TEN-T network. It can be concluded that for further deploying and extending the Vital Nodes knowledge and network, there was the necessity to extend the overlapping area between urban mobility and TEN-T, thereby to consider the wider policy setting in and enhancing further integration. The project has produced validated recommendations that can be linked to five different clusters: Strategy and value, network and space, governance and time, finance and funding, research and data. Summarizing, 25 concrete validations have been made including target groups who can act at the recommendation