Project description
Optimising urban logistics
The daily transport of goods in and around urban areas is essential to support the needs of domestic and international commerce as well as local businesses and consumers. However, it contributes to the disruption of citizens’ life quality by increasing traffic congestion, noise, road hazards, air pollution and land use conflicts. As urban freight distribution continues to grow, it is vital to mitigate its side effects. To address this, the EU-funded DISCO project aims to develop and demonstrate a centralised European metamodel that integrates urban freight logistics and optimised city land use. The open data-sharing space will provide city planners with tools that can help them optimally manage, monitor and dynamically predict city freight flows.
Objective
DISCO will develop and demonstrate - in real-life conditions - a federated European urban freight (UF) data space as one stop shop of data sharing on digital urban logistics solutions and smart tools for ambitious decision making. It will be a continental Ten-T – oriented and distributed real-life ecosystem to prove its value via demonstrated and replicable Use Cases (UCs), build upon innovation drivers to code concrete transformation of urban planning and land use by an open and collaborative UF Data Space with a smart governance model.
The DISCO UF Data Space is voluntary based (incentivized), co-created and open framework to achieve a radical transformation and alliance in purpose-oriented data sharing, enabling smart access, fast and resource efficient acquisition, and focused provision, improving knowledge and capacity of city authorities and planners guaranteeing future data availability for dynamic (and predictive) integrated urban logistics planning, synchronizing real-time demand for transport & warehousing with logistics supply, (e.g. as Uber matches the demand for private car transport service with its road drivers’ fleet).
DISCO will support European urban logistics players in reducing economic, societal and technical dependence from private digital platforms owned by large global providers, magnifying the scope of a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) converging to data-driven Sustainable Urban Logistics Planning (SULPs), expanding them beyond traditional urban boundaries (e.g. rural areas, towns and suburbs, cities, and urban areas according to World Urbanization Prospects ) and beyond Covid-19, to optimally manage, monitor and dynamically predict city freight flows, changing urban nodes accessibility by properly serving Functional Urban Area - FUA on a larger, mixed-use, and flexible scale , and deliver advanced and well-informed planning and purpose oriented, optimised land use within a TEN-T and global dimension.
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50672 KOLN
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145 61 Athina
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08012 BARCELONA
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44227 Dortmund
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31170 Arazuri
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71063 Sindelfingen
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40127 Bologna
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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402 78 Goteborg
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20457 Hamburg
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91120 Palaiseau
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4817 JT Breda
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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50667 Koln
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1200 Bruxelles / Brussel
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3062 PA Rotterdam
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3001 Leuven
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2600 Berchem
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50018 Zaragoza
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9090 Melle
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9000 Gent
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9850 Deinze
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28046 Madrid
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08034 Barcelona
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08034 Barcelona
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08002 Barcelona
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30100 VENEZIA
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46024 Valencia
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46002 Valencia
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46988 Paterna
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50071 Zaragoza
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50003 Zaragoza
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00130 Helsinki
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2400 KOBENHAVN NV
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3400 Hillerod
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29121 Piacenza
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160 00 PRAGUE 6
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34117 Kassel
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8100 Arhus C
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546 36 THESSALONIKI
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54636 Thessaloniki
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122 41 ATHINA
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01530 Vantaa
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50018 Zaragoza
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00620 Helsinki
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35129 Padova
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35122 Padova
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