Sustainable urban logistics: tools demonstration

From 27 to 29 September 2017, LIST researchers participated in the Civitas Forum in Portugal, the biggest event dedicated to mobility and smart cities in Europe, as part of the European " Sustainable Urban Consolidation CentrES for Construction” (SUCCESS) project it coordinates.

The SUCCESS project is financed by the European Union's H2020 programme which aims to reduce the negative impacts and costs of urban freight transport generated by the construction sector through improved Supply Chain Management and Construction Consolidation Centres (CCCs). Launched in 2015, this European project comes to its end in April 2018.

LIST and its partners have taken advantage of the opportunity offered by the CIVITAS forum to present the most recent developments in the project to visitors, including solutions to improve the transport chain in the construction sector. They presented the three main innovative tools for sustainable urban logistics. These tools offer municipalities and construction or transport companies the following possibilities:

• a simulation of the impacts of different policy measures on the sustainability of one or more construction projects,
• a self-assessment of one or more construction projects to decide which measures are likely to be most effective at improving their sustainability,
• a Cost/Benefits Analysis to estimate the viability of a consolidation centre for one or more construction projects in any given city.

These solutions were demonstrated to visitors to enable them to appreciate their benefits for the improvement of construction logistics in urban areas.

>>For further information about the project, visit the SUCCESS webpage

Retrospective of SUCCESS participation in the CIVITAS forum 2017

Légende photo principale, de gauche à droite : Francesco Ferrero, Romain Gaasch, Cindy Guerlain (LIST), Eleonora Tu (Fondazione ITL), Sarah Köneke (Association pour le développement de la formation professionnelle dans le transport)