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H2020Staff exchange2017–2019

PROSFET · Promoting Sustainable Freight Transport in Urban Contexts: Policy and Decision-Making Approaches

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-01-01 → 2019-12-31
EU contribution
€283,500
Participants
10
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Promoting Sustainable Freight Transport in Urban Contexts:Policy and Decision-Making Approaches

Within a context of growing urban population, advances in urban logistics operations and improved local authority planning, especially in the field of the urban freight transport, can alleviate the associated negative environmental and economic impacts occurring in cities. Several types of stakeholders are involved in such urban logistics management processes. Among them, freight carriers and shippers are interested in minimizing freight logistics costs in order to maximize their profits, while maintaining a competitive level of service to their customers. City administrators and residents are oriented towards a decrease in traffic congestion, social costs and environmental nuisances, even though they are often direct beneficiaries of high quality delivery services. This leads to a multitude of differing and possibly conflicting objectives that are involved in urban freight transport planning and decision making, yielding a high level of complexity. This provides the main motivation for the development of tools for helping decision makers to reach higher grades of efficiency. Despite growing academic interest, the extent to which freight transport is acknowledged and formally considered in local authority transport planning varies considerably from country to country, and on a more local level, between towns and cities. As a result, policy development with respect to urban freight and city logistics is characterised by a rather fragmented approach, with many city authorities finding it difficult to address the complex set of differing views of a large variety of stakeholders. The ProSFeT project has been aimed at identifying local authority planning needs with regards to urban/city logistics activities and the necessary pre-requisites for inclusion of stakeholders in the process. Also, the project has promoted the knowledge transfer of methods and models through the conceptual development of a novel decision support tool (thanks to involved software houses), which could allow local authorities to evaluate the suitability of sustainable urban logistics solutions.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Within a context of growing urban population, advances in urban logistics operations and improved local authority planning, especially in the field of the urban freight transport, can alleviate the associated negative environmental and economic impacts occurring in cities.Several types of stakeholders are involved in such urban logistics management processes. Among them, freight carriers and shippers are interested in minimizing freight logistics costs in order to maximize their profits, while maintaining a competitive level of service to their customers. City administrators and residents are oriented towards a decrease in traffic congestion, social costs and environmental nuisances, even though they are often direct beneficiaries of high quality delivery services. This leads to a multitude of differing and possibly conflicting objectives that are involved in urban freight transport planning and decision making, yielding a high level of complexity. This provides a main motivation for the development of tools for helping decision makers to reach higher grades of efficiency. Despite growing academic interest, the extent to which freight transport is acknowledged and formally considered in local authority transport planning varies considerably from country to country, and on a more local level, between towns and cities. As a result, policy development with respect to urban freight and city logistics is characterised by a rather fragmented approach, with many city authorities finding it difficult to address the complex set of differing views of a large variety of stakeholders. The proposed project will be aimed at identifying local authority planning needs with regards to urban/city logistics activities and the necessary pre-requisites for inclusion of stakeholders in the process. Finally, the project will promote the knowledge transfer of methods and models through the conceptual development of a novel decision support tool (thanks to involved software houses).

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · SHEFFIELDCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
  • ALGOWATT SPA · MILANOItaly
  • CITY OF BRADFORD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COUNCIL · BradfordUnited Kingdom
  • CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · RomaItaly
  • GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET · GoeteborgSweden
  • KENTRO EREVNON NOTIOANATOLIKIS EVROPIS ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA · ThessalonikiGreece
  • SHAPING CLOUD LTD · MANCHESTERUnited Kingdom
  • SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL · SheffieldUnited Kingdom
  • STOCKHOLMS STAD · StockholmSweden
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE EXTREMADURA · BadajozSpain

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union