CityLog-CityMove Newsletter - 2

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Issue 2 November 2010

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CityLog - CityMove Stakeholders Workshop Discussing the needs towards urban freight delivery vehicles and urban logistics concepts.

New concepts for sustainable city logistics

he CityLog - CityMove User Forum on vehicles for urban freight delivery and ITS based city logistic systems took place on 16 June 2010.

The event was an opportunity for the two projects to connect with urban freight delivery and learn about their experiences, needs, and visions. The workshop gathered 75 stakeholders ranging from freight operators, cities, organisations, research institutes, vehicle manufactures and others. The morning session was opened by the Continued on next page

Dear Readers, e are going to close the first year of activity in CityLog, after almost twelve intense months of fruitful cooperation.

As a Consortium, we are fully satisfied of the results we achieved, and we would like to highlight especially the success of the CityLog-CityMove joint workshop – held last June in Brussels – to collect inputs for our projects: in this issue of the newsletter you will find a synthesis of what was discussed by the 80 participants.

If you are interested in knowing about today’s situation of city logistics or what is still needed in more detail, all the deliverables from the first stage of the project are now available. Specifically, the deliverable D1.1 on “Trends of urban logistics in Europe 27” proposes an analysis of the existing literature and inputs mainly coming from logistic operators and cities. A web questionnaire circulated among freight operators, public authorities, vehicle manufacturers and their associations allowed the collection of a wide range of issues that have been grouped and presented in the document D1.2 on “Stakeholders’ needs”. Finally, D1.3 reports on the methodology that was applied to define the “Use Cases” which will be investigated in depth during the next months.

As you can see, much has been done by the CityLog partners. Nevertheless, this was just the first step and we have now entered the “hot phase” of the project: we are now working to design all the CityLog solutions that will be developed and tested in Berlin, Lyon and Piedmont. Our engineers are brainstorming to integrate infotelematic services and to improve the traditional freight distribution vehicles, while expert teams are planning the future field trials and the evaluation tasks.

On the side of the CityMove project we are very proud to be invited to the Conference on Urban Freight Transport and Logistics “Innovative and sustainable solutions for Europe”, November 16th-17th, to In this Issue: present the first lessons learned in these first months of activity. Again the main results that will be presented are the outcomes of the CityLog-CityMove joint workshop. This • CityLog - CityMove Stakeyear is the turn of CityMove to participate in the EUCAR Conference on November 9th. holders Workshop page 1-2 As last year, the presentation will cover both projects, showing the first results.

• Stakeholders’ needs and Use Cases page 3 • Lyon-ITS City 2011 page 4-6 • CityLog solutions on deliveries page 6 • External News and Events

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The CityMove main results are described in two deliverables: D2.1 User needs and requirements and D2.2 Vehicle, traffic and goods movements’ models. Activities are now focused in the definition of the specification and architecture of the CityMove vehicles and their functionalities, based on the results of the user needs analysis.

We believe all these efforts should be well communicated: for this reason we are strongly committed to attending the most relevant international events on infomobility and logistics in order to disseminate our results. In this newsletter we also present our agenda: we hope to meet you soon.

Enjoy your reading!

Saverio Zuccotti (CityLog) and Gianfranco Burzio (CityMove)

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EC project officer of both CityLog and CityMove projects, Patrycja Kulesza, who welcomed the participants and gave an overview of DG Research priorities. Separate presentations followed by the coordinators of CityLog, Saverio Zuccotti, and the coordinator of CityMove, Gianfranco Burzio, on the work plan and expected results of both projects.

The workshop structure was based on

The Participants of both groups wrote answers on post-its which were collected and clustered. Four different colours of post-its were used according to the following four stakeholder groups: • local authorities (yellow)

• others (pink)

Telematic solutions session

• Need for Cooperative telematic platform (Public Private Partnership to make cooperative logistics) • Changing Shopping behaviour • Connectivity/ standard interfaces/ modularity/ Interoperability • Logistics concepts/supply chain

Objectives:

• Safety/loading and unloading

• to identify conflicts and commonalities between users’ needs coming from different stakeholder groups; • to discuss possible solutions/ compromises for the identified conflicts.

• Reduction of emissions •

Reduction of noise from driving • Flexibility of vehicles for combining deliveries to reduce km

Parallel breakout session • to collect users’ needs related to the urban delivery vehicle respectively urban logistics;

• improved safety for all road users

• vehicle manufacturers (green)

• Synchronise road works

• the Plenary Session involved all participating stakeholders with the aim of depicting their wishes for an efficient city logistics chain.

Issues/needs raised by the participants during the discussion on:

and un/loading activities

• Routing/congestion

• the Parallel Breakout Session was a parallel brainstorming session on logistic and vehicle solutions;

Vehicle solutions session

• freight operators (blue)

Issues/needs raised by the participants during the discussion on:

presentations of the two projects and on two sessions:

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(ITS systems)

• Vehicles should allow for fast un/ loading • Vehicle size and weights need to consider restrictions in (historic) city centres

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Plenary session Objectives: The plenary session depicted wishes of stakeholders towards other stakeholders for an efficient city logistics chain. This session discussed among the different stakeholders what may be done to together improve urban freight delivery.

What does each stakeholder group expect from other stakeholders and what can they do themselves to support the others?

The full workshop report can be read on the CityLog and CityMove websites.

www.city-log.eu

Stakeholders’ Group Administrators

Stakeholders’ Needs

Use Case

Need fulfilled/extra requirements necessary

In order to improve urban development, modal integration and quality of life, administrators want to focus on micro-terminals for urban freight distribution.

Freight bus, delivery van and BentoBox

Need fulfilled (by developing transhipment areas and docking stations)

Freight Carriers

They both need the vehicle and loading units to be as flexible as possible (different temperature zones within one vehicle, flexibility to ship all types and sizes of goods, modularity of the box etc).

BentoBox, basic container, delivery van and freight bus

Need fulfilled (by developing transhipment areas and docking stations)

Residents

Punctuality (i.e. on-time deliveries) is considered the most important item for improving the service reliability and the quality feeling/perception of delivery services.

Planner

Need fulfilled

Some producers (senders) need tailormade city logistics solutions (i.e. their shipments to be consolidated with non-competitors’ ones).

Planner1

Truck and vehicle manufacturers need to reduce primarily the vehicle’s operational costs (fuel consumption, maintenance etc).

Planner

Shippers

Truck/vehicle Manufacturers

Last mile tracking device

Freight bus

Need fulfilled (in operational windows)

BentoBox

Last mile tracking device

Extra: require minimum operational costs

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he urban community of Lyon gathers 57 communes within an area of nearly 51,500 hectares, inside the Rhone-Alpes Area, second area of France, with a little more than 5 million inhabitants. Privileged crossroad of the exchanges between north and south Europe, the dynamism of the Lyon agglomeration is clearly expressed every day. The population of Greater Lyon is about 1,300,000 inhabitants. It is 82% of the population of the Rhone department, for a surface which accounts for only 16% of the territory of the department.

Today in Lyon, the public authority is in charge of the management of traffic and the air quality as well. Two administrative levels are in charge: City of Lyon and Greater Lyon, and they work together to improve air quality and management of traffic, especially targeting heavy duty vehicles. The most remarkable actions today are the following: The Plan de Protection de l’Atmosphère (PPA: Atmosphere Protection Plan), covering the whole urban area The French government, through its local department (Direction Départementale des Territoires du Rhône DDT69), built up the PPA with strong objectives on air quality.

Important studies have been led to determine the precise levels of pollution and gas concentrations in the air (particles, fumes, NOX …) within the perimeter of the urban

area. Several actions are planned, divided into different fields. One of the fields is dedicated to road transport, its related actions should lead, in the short term, to an overall regulation that includes EURO norms for freight vehicles operating inside the urban area perimeter, and to new speed limitations on the road network. These actions are to be defined by the end of the year 2010, and should be realised soon afterwards.

The perimeter for this Plan and its actions is the urban area, wider than Greater Lyon, counting 105 communes.

The Plan Climat (Climate Plan), Greater Lyon Following implementation of the Kyoto protocol, the Greater Lyon urban community placed the fight against greenhouse gases as a second aim of its Agenda 21 in 2005. As part of its Climate Plan, in 2007 it undertook to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% for 2020 and by 75% for 2050. The goal is also to reduce energy consumption by 20% and to consume 20% of sustainable forms of energy by 2020.

This commitment serves three major ambitions: • To preserve the environment and to adapt to climate change.

• To improve the quality of life and to preserve access to basic rights.

• To contribute to economic development by keeping up with climate issues.

Greater Lyon counts environmental protection as a major feature of its internal organisation, central to its

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public policies and at the heart of the relations it has with the people in its region. It operates transversally, using all the levers for action available as the owner of industrial facilities and land, of housing, transport, and urban planning, and using its ability to bring together those who are active in the region, especially in terms of economic development.

The Plan Bruit (Noise Plan), Greater Lyon With respect to the European Environmental Noise Directive, Greater Lyon has initiated a process of permanent improvement of noise levels, together with its partners and infrastructures managers. A diagnostic was made, showing noise maps for road, railroad, and air transport, and also for industries.

Greater Lyon is now leading an action plan aiming at reducing the main causes of noise, and at protecting quiet areas. Optimising mobility and transport is one of the key factors for reducing noise levels in the Greater Lyon perimeter.

Since 2005, the urban travel and transport plans (Plan de déplacements urbains: PDU) authorised Greater Lyon and City of Lyon to work on urban deliveries.

A coordination committee called “Transport of goods in town”, was created for improving the exchanges between local authorities and logistic companies and goods delivery in the urban centre.

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Freight Issues in Greater Lyon Lyon’s Policy Plans decision was taken in 2007 to test a new regulation for delivery vehicles in the peninsula area (Presqu’île) of Lyon. The perimeter is delimited on east and west sides by the rivers (Saône, Rhône), on the north side by Place des Terreaux and on the south side by Perrache Station.

The restriction consists of: • in terms of circulation: ◊ creation in 2007 of a low emission zone: forbidden access to vehicles that do not comply with EURO norms with a progressive planning defined (target 2010: no vehicles older than EURO 3). The current applying norm is EURO II, ◊ forbidden access (day-time period) for vehicles with a surface over 29m2 • in terms of delivery zones: ◊ access limited to 30 minutes ◊ obligatory use of a delivery disk ◊ delivery zones access allowed only for professional vehicles (carriage for hire and transport for own account) The short-term objective is to extend (and adapt) such a regulation over Lyon’s west-bank in 2011 and the mid-term objective to the whole city of Lyon, and possibly other urban cities of Greater Lyon.

Cities’ environmental objectives meeting the needs of the logistics sector through new vehicles, new cargo and new concepts like the ‘BentoBox’. CityLog and CityMove are paving the way to sustainable city logistics.

ven if such regulation has decreased the traffic jam in the inner city, it remains a big issue and the delivery of goods is still one of the contributing causes of traffic congestion in Greater Lyon.

Freight transport represents 7% of the vehicles’ moves.

- 120,000 moves a day for goods deliveries in Greater Lyon among which approximately 25% on the towns of Lyon and Villeurbanne ; - about 1 million kilometres a day and 10 to 15% of the total traffic (in véhicles.kilometres).

The distance of the platforms from the city centre results in increasing difficulties for the routing of goods in the agglomeration, with more kilometres and access times to the centre from the periphery, lowering the economic performances of the professionals.

Today, most of the logistic platforms are within a radius of 15 to 40 km.

Haulies estimate it is too far for “last kilometre” delivery, adding to the cost.

In the urban centre, the number of double lane parking is significant, generating conflict between inhabitants and shopkeepers. In a busy shopping area, this can represent 90% of all stops.

Goods delivery is also a source of noise and pollution, as well as a safety risk and nuisance for other vehicles and pedestrians.

In spite of the progress of the motorisations of industrial vehicles, the part of heavy trucks and vans in greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants remains important: - Approximately a quarter of the CO2 emissions of the sector transport - Near half of nitrogen oxides emissions of the sector transport

Example of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) In Greater Lyon agglomeration, NOx accounts for 63% of road traffic emissions. Among these emissions, heavy lorries account for 39% and light commercial vehicles 13% (one can estimate at first approximation that these vehicles are dedicated to goods transport). That is to say more than 50% of the emissions of NOx of the sector traffic is related to the vehicles of goods transport.

NOx contribution of goods transport is thus as important as that of the passenger transport.

CityLog solutions could improve freight issues in Greater Lyon s the efficient organisation of delivery operations is fundamental to the economic viability of business activities in urban areas, there is an urgent need to find an innovative and practical solution which is acceptable from the social, environmental and commercial point of view.

The Citylog project allows the urban community to carry on with the innovative experiment in the search for a better organisation of goods distribution in town introduced with the European project FIDEUS. This project answers the commitments taken within the framework of the urban travel and transport plans (PDU) which specifies that “devices allowing to optimise the conditions of delivery will be experimented.”

This is coherent with the led reflections, with the private and public partners within the framework of the coordination committee’s “transportation of goods in town “ of Greater Lyon.

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The appropriate vehicle-cargo solution matching the different environments where goods are moving. CityLog and CityMove are turning new concepts into operational solutions.

delivery, it is essential to promote a co-operative approach of the different stakeholders, whose interests seem often to be in conflict. If the strategies adopted by city authorities to regulate delivery activities are not well conceived they risk being seen as unacceptable interference in business operations, and in the long term even lead to relocation away from city centre sites.

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Citylog solutions could decrease the environmental impact of the deliveries in town.

- Two types of vehicles exist - a freight bus unloading its containers on vans, on transhipment areas out of the dense urban centre, and vans moving downtown with the freight for several delivery areas, that could limit the number of kilometres and traffic congestion caused by big lorries.

This concept would provide the answer to one of the main issues in goods delivery.

- Mobile automatic pack stations, automatically loaded/unloaded on the vehicles and moved from the hub to the downtown areas, can improve

goods delivery efficiency and allow deliveries out of peak time hours.

- The telematic solutions (realtime traffic information for the driver) of the CityLog project present an indisputable interest for all the stakeholders: • for public authorities: less traffic congestion, less pollutant emissions • for haulies: optimised fleet management and routing of freight vehicles that means less consumptions, more delivery efficiency, decreasing costs • for customers: optimised fleet better services.

The CityLog project presents technologies and systems for freight movements and goods services in cities which could minimize their impact upon residents whilst maintaining or increasing overall system efficiency.

ITS world Congress in Lyon 2011 and CityLog project he 8th European Congress and Exhibition will be held 6-9 June 2011 in Lyon.

The organisation of this event has begun with the active participation of the Grand Lyon, the Rhône-Alpes Region, the Lyon Urban Truck and Bus Cluster, the French Ministry of Transport (MEEDDM), ITS France and the French organisations active within ERTICO - ITS Europe. The main focus of the Congress will be “Intelligent mobility - ITS for sustainable transport of persons and goods in urban regions”. For more information, you can go on the Congress website: http://2011.itsineurope.com

Greater Lyon future test site activities The team of the Greater Lyon test site is currently dealing with the planning of the future local activities. The current discussions consist in verifying if the wide range of the CityLog solutions can be implemented on Greater Lyon territory (Transhipment between Freight bus and vans, mobile box), in defining, according to the solutions to be tested, the configuration of requisite areas for the experiment and their possible locations.

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EUCAR Conference, 9 November 2010 The EUCAR conference will take place on 9 November in Autoworld, Bruxelles. The conference is the opportunity of EUCAR to show to the European research community the main results of their projects. Last year CityLog had been invited and the project coordinator, starting from the main problems of the Freight distribution on urban areas, had showed the main ideas of CityLog and CityMove projects to solve these problems.

Conference on Urban Freight Transport and Logistics Innovative and sustainable solutions for Europe, 16-17 November 2010 The CityMove project will be presenting in the Workshop 6: Clean Vehicles for urban freight transport.

Conference on Urban Freight Transport and Logistics

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Albert Borchette Conference Centre, Brussels Name of Participant: Gianfranco Burzio (CRF) The European Commission and the Belgian Presidency will host a conference on urban freight transport and logistics in Brussels. The conference will bring together high-level representatives from the European institutions and from key stakeholder associations to debate on sustainable solutions to urban freight in Europe’s cities.

PR OGRAMME

BRUSSELS,

Albert Borschette

16 & 17 Novemb

Conference Centre

er 2010

This event was foreseen in Action 19 (urban freight transport) of the Action Plan on Urban Mobility, as adopted by the European Commission on 30 September 2009, and falls within the framework of the programme of the Belgian Presidency to promote innovative and sustainable transport solutions for Europe.

The conference has been structured to cover several key aspects of urban freight transport and logistics, to be discussed in six thematic workshops.

Please download programme at: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/urban/events/doc/2010_11_16_programme.pdf

CityLog at Mobilis Conference, 16-17 November 2010 Strasbourg, France Name of Participant: Saverio Zuccotti (CRF) Once again, at Mobilis people can meet to discuss about the mobility we will see in the next years. Organized by the French Pôle Véhicule du Futur, Mobilis is an international event with conferences, workshops and round-tables. Both CityLog and CityMove projects will be presented by Saverio Zuccotti in the workshop “Merchandise in the city – take a Van” during the morning of the 17th.

More information and the work programme are available at the Mobilis web page: http://www.mobilisconference.com

POLIS Conference, 25-26 November 2010, Dresden Innovation in transport for sustainable cities and regions Name of Participant: Julius Menge (Senate of Berlin) The Annual Polis Conference provides an opportunity for cities and regions to showcase their transport achievements to a large audience and for the wider transport community to engage with representatives of city and regional authorities on innovative transport solutions. The conference offers a mix of high-level plenary sessions, with prominent figures debating topical issues, and a wide selection of technical sessions on innovative topics identified by Polis members.

Citylog will be represented by Berlin Stad. The presentation will provide an inside view on Berlin’s Integrated Urban Freight Transportation Strategy” from a planner’s perspective, explain the process and its results. Also some of Berlin’s EU funded projects (esp. CityLog) will be presented, focusing on the question of which results are expected and how to “translate” local (micro scale) results to the city wide level (macro scale).

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7th International Conference, 7-9 of June 2011 Mallorca, Spain The seventh International Conference on City Logistics Name of Participant: Hans Quak (TNO) This conference aims to provide an opportunity to exchange knowledge, experience and perspectives on City Logistics and urban freight transport. Recent developments in creating visions, technologies and policy measures that facilitate the deployment of various City Logistics schemes will be discussed. Since City Logistics schemes have already been implemented in several cities, a review of the performance of these schemes will also be presented. Also, an overview of the development and application of several mathematical models and effects of e-commerce on urban freight transport will be given. The conference also provides an opportunity to discuss future initiatives of the Institute for City Logistics that are aimed at promoting international research collaboration and information exchange.

Citylog paper submitted in TEMA - University of Naples.

From University of Naples, focus on city logistics Names of Contributors: Saverio Zuccotti (CRF) , Lina Konstantinopoulou (ERTICO) TEMA – Territorio Mobilità Ambiente is the quarterly review issued by the Department of Land Planning of “Università di Napoli Federico II” addressing a professional audience. The issue released in June has a focus on city logistics, and CityLog project was invited to submit a paper to present our initiative in the “Researches” section. Saverio Zuccotti from CRF as Project Coordinator and Lina Konstantinopoulou from ERTICO as WP1 leader prepared an overview of the project with the title “CityLog, verso nuove soluzioni per la distribuzione delle merci” (“CityLog, towards new solutions for urban freight distribution”).

In a 6-page paper with pictures and diagrams, the Authors describe the overall goal of CityLog and anticipate the solutions that will be developed in the next two years. The paper also contains a table with the synthesis of the deliverable on D1.1 Trends of city logistics in Europe 27.

If you are interested in reading the whole paper, you can download it in PDF format from the following address: http://www.tema.unina.it/issue/view/20

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