by Walther Ploos van Amstel
The city of Stockholm has designed a strategy for freight which fits in the overall sustainable urban mobility planning strategy. The integration of urban freight in the transport strategy made Stockholm qualify as one of the three finalists for the 5th EU SUMP Award on the topic of urban freight.
Disruptions due to construction activities will increase substantially in Dutch cities over the coming years. But setting up smart construction logistics in advance will prevent most of the disruption, argue Walther Ploos van Amstel and René Postulart. “That that will not only save money, as the Dutch logistics sector has calculated, but also immediately cut …
The SPICE project collects and assesses current practices of public procurements for sustainable transport and mobility projects in Europe, and shares good practices with other public procurers. The project aims to facilitate dialogues between public procurers and suppliers and develop recommendations on procurement procedures in order to enable fast adoption of innovative and sustainable technologies.
The number of light commercial vehicles in cities is growing, which puts increasing pressure on cities in terms of pollution, congestion, accessibility and loss of public space. One of the opportunities for improvement may be found in the use of light electric freight vehicles (LEFVs), including cargo bikes.
A consortium of organisations and businesses have announced plans to develop Low Impact City Logistics and trial an innovative, electric powered cargo bike and walker trailers to deliver packages in the centre of London. Fernhay, Skotkonung and the University of Huddersfield, will design and develop the prototype which Outspoken Delivery will test in Cambridge ahead …
This short film by Urban Arrow shows how the growing number of residents, visitors, tourists and subsequent traffic is congesting the inner city and how cargo bikes can be a smart solution for urban freight; zero-emission, silent, using less space and safe.
Trucks and delivery vans driving around in circles looking for a place to park, and then double parking when they can’t find one – it’s something you see in every city. It’s inefficient and it’s a nuisance, both to the drivers themselves and to the local residents. Last year, a team of traffic experts from …
Within the Accelerator TKI Dinalog program ten new consortia started to work on new research for knowledge and innovation in logistics in March 2017. One of the projects is ITSLOG. This project examines how real-time traffic data can be used for city logistics. The consortium is led by Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). Scientific …
In 2015 Barcelona introduced regulated areas for Distribució Urbana de Mercaderies (DUM) areas for loading and unloading. Following the success of the pilot scheme in Passeig de Gràcia, the rest of the city got DUMs for the loading and unloading of goods. The designation of 9,000 parking places as DUM areas aims to update and …
As a partner in the FREVUE project, the City of Amsterdam has been actively supporting the uptake of electric freight vehicles (EFVs), using different incentives, from purchase subsidies to encouraging zero emission deliveries in the procurement of its own office supplies. Among the most effective actions are operational incentives for freight companies using EFVs in …