Objective
Urban areas represent the greatest challenges for freight transport and service trips, both in terms of goods distribution and service allocation performance, and environmental impacts (air emission, traffic congestion, road safety, accidents and noise). The salient scope of the proposal is the enabling of knowledge and understanding of freight distribution and service trips by providing guidance for implementing effective and sustainable policies and measures. This guidance will support the choice of the most optimal and applicable solutions for urban freight and service transport, and will facilitate stakeholder collaboration and the development, field testing and transfer of best governance and business models.
This shall be achieved through:
- the targeted understanding of urban freight and service trips, fostered by data collection on city logistics,
- field testing and implementation of representative city logistics measures,
- the development and application of a modular, integrated, evaluation framework for the assessment of these measures
- the development of a typology between cities and potential city logistics components, and
- the provision of guidance to cities, shaping consistent implementation channels for successful solutions, all according to the local needs and constraints.
These activities will be accompanied by the production of practical tools that could support the take-up impact of NOVELOG project to wider international city and industrial networks and beyond the project's lifetime. NOVELOG will contribute to the European Commission's research and policy agenda through the generation of sound knowledge that introduces a new approach to guidance strategies that supports a more sustainable urban environment.
Fields of science
- social sciencessocial geographytransportelectric vehicles
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- social sciencessocial geographytransportsustainable transportintelligent transport systems
- social sciencessocial geographytransportfreight transport
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
Call for proposal
H2020-MG-2014_TwoStages
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
Greece
Participants (28)
NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
1050 Bruxelles
1050 Bruxelles
40127 Bologna
2715 CA Zoetermeer
70 500 Szczecin
30122 Venezia
08034 Barcelona
16129 Genova
8010 Graz
38221 Volos
00185 Roma
1000 Bruxelles
92100 Boulogne Billancourt
10437 Athina
176 75 Kallithea
40127 Bologna
8010 Graz
105 57 Athina
2500 Valby
08002 Barcelona
00143 Roma
56100 Pisa
RM10 7BN Dagenham
411 13 Goteborg
2800 Mechelen
10122 Torino
193 00 Aspropirgos