SUCCESS project event: Innovative Urban Freight Management Systems

On 26 May 2016 in Paris, France, is to be held a Symposium organised by CITYLAB project in association with SUCCESS project: Innovative Urban Freight Managemen Systems.

About SUCCESS

SUCCESS is a European research project coordinated by LIST that unites institutions and businesses around a shared challenge, that of reducing the transport of building materials and its impact on cities. Several pilot sites will be launched, including one in Luxembourg City, at a construction site in the Neudorf quarter.

>> More info at www.list.lu/en/project/success

About the Symposium

This event will bring together freight transport and urban planning practitioners and policy makers to discuss latest developments in the city of Paris, including an option of site visits to a logistics hotel and a construction site where consolidation options are being considered.

Venue:  Pavillon Arsenal, 21 boulevard Morland, 4th arrondissement, Paris

Agenda:

09:00 Registration, coffee 

09:50 Opening addresses (Chaired by Tom Cherrett, University of Southhampton)

• Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning (Jean Louis Missika) 
• Introduction to CITYLAB project (Jardar Andersen, TOI)
• Introduction to SUCCESS project (David Evaristo, LIST)

10:45 Main session

• Paris Deputy Mayor for Transport representative (Hervé Levifve): "Paris Charter for Sustainable Logistics" and "Logistics, urban planning and architecture - Paris innovations"
• Panel debate: Paris as a Living Lab for urban freight. Panel: Hervé Levifve (City of Paris), Elisabeth Charrier (FNTR - National Federation of Road Transport), Christophe Ripert (Sogaris), Claude Samson (AFILOG).
  Moderator: Laetitia Dablanc

12:30 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Afternoon session (added due to the demand)

• Success factors from past urban freight initiatives and potential for CO₂ reduction (Mik Browne, University of Gothenburg)

OR

14:00 Departure of coaches to visit sites (participants may visit one only)

14:30 Site visits

• Chapelle (Christophe Ripert, Sogaris and Alexandre Tella/Anne-Sophie Jamet, Mairie de Paris)
• Beaugrenelle (Chronopost representative and Laetitia Dablanc, IFSTTAR)
• Îlot Fontenoy-Ségur (Phillippe Robart, VINCI Construction France)

16:00 Round table sessions at each site

Return by coach to Pavillon Arsenal by around 17:30

>> See the Event flyer gathering all information and registration form on citylab-project.eu.

 

SUCCESS project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 633338.