LEAD’s solutions have been co-designed by city authorities, logistics industry leaders, start-ups and research experts in freight modelling, complex simulation and logistics optimisation in six cities, involving partners beyond the limits of the consortium. Building on work of the first 18 months, LEAD has delivered the following results from M19 to M40:
Developed the open LEAD Digital Twinning Platform, integrating a Models Library of over 20 generic, reusable and adaptive models. The platform supports simulation-based impact assessment, for evaluating alternative city logistics strategies and designing urban logistics solutions and policies. LEAD standardised the way new models can be integrated into the platform through containerisation. Further, LEAD developed the STAR Logistics Model, a scientifically-based tool that provides a sustainability rating for last-mile logistics solutions
Demonstrated and validated project concepts and tools in six intervention areas (Living Labs), delivering reference strategies, measures and prominent value case scenarios to be adopted by other cities to meet their decarbonisation ambition. Resulting measures include transforming parking lots into urban consolidation centers, introducing electric delivery vehicles, adopting new delivery models like crowd shipping, improving spatial planning and making decisions about infrastructure such as chargers to optimise operations.
Disseminated widely the project through over 20 events and scientific publications, reaching a network of >5000 stakeholders;
Published open source components on GitHub. Rolled out a MOOC with 5 training modules, with >200 enrolled, integrated also on the Civitas Learning Centre.
Published an Adoption Roadmap and Recommendations and set up the Transferability Platform with 10 follower cities interested in adopting the LEAD approach.
Files one patent on the routing of electric delivery vehicles, which has already been granted in Greece and Belgium, pending results for the US.
