DISCO focuses on upscaling urban logistics and smart planning through 23 measures in 8 Living Lab, accelerating the transition to decarbonized and digital cities by changing the logistics paradigm using a Physical Internet (PI) led approach. To help cities achieve digital transformation and foster an interconnected logistics ecosystem, DISCO focuses on three main actions: (i) Influential market players register last-mile delivery capacities in an Urban Freight Data Space (UFDS) and establish trusted data sharing with planners; (ii) The Meta Model Suite (MMS) is an end-to-end guided process to transform a city's logistics operations through data-driven solutions and it is composed of 5 innovations DISCOCURB, DISCOESTATE, DISCOBAY, DISCOLLECTION and DISCOPROXI. It delineates optimal paths - acting as PI networks - to achieve real twin transition in Living Labs, also supporting urban nodes concept evolution; (iii) all concerned stakeholder can comply with IT standards and protocols.
The DISCO UFDS 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 SUMPs converging to data-driven SULPs, expanding them beyond traditional urban boundaries, to optimally manage, monitor and dynamically predict city freight flows, changing urban nodes accessibility by properly serving Functional Urban Area 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.
Main DISCO challenge is to realise dynamic and optimal space re-allocation, integrating urban freight within an efficiently operated network-of-networks (PI-led), exploiting underused lands and assets, based on throughput demands. DISCO solutions are designed involving all stakeholders together driving a paradigm change from sprawl to freight-efficient, zero-emission and nearby-delivery-based models.
DISCO is committed to pooling innovation capacity of urban logistics actors, so that the whole sector would be able to untap a huge amount of data-driven efficiency and sustainability potential, thus generating new values for the Community and unbiased regulation. Central to PI vision, is the true and trusted integration of systems and networks, activated / monitored by any city actively shaping its transition, smoothly integrating freight considerations into land-use policy and planning, leading their inclusion as urban nodes in the context of TEN‐T policy.
