SUCCESS Project presented at CIVITAS Forum
From 27 to 29 September 2017 in Torres Vedras, Portugal, is to be held the 15th CIVITAS forum. Under the banner of “Small Communities, Big Ideas”, this event will especially highlight pioneering initiatives of sustainable transport and mobility that emerge from small communities and towns. Several hundred mobility experts, public actors and stakeholders are expected to participate in the event.
On this occasion, the European SUCCESS project partners, of which Francesco Ferrero from the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), will present various tools that cities, construction companies and transporters can use to make freight transport caused by construction works more sustainable. The tools that will be permanently demoed at Stand S34 include:
- A multi-tactile table to simulate the impact of different policy measures on the sustainability of one or more construction projects
- A simple tool to self-assess one or more construction project(s) and decide what measures are likely to be most effective at improving its sustainability
- A Cost/Benefits Analysis to estimate the viability of a consolidation centre for one or more construction projects in any given city.
The most recent advancements of the SUCCESS project will also be presented during the session “Innovative approaches for engaging and supporting industry and local authorities in urban freight strategy development” on 27 September at 3 p.m. The focus of the presentation will be put on the project’s contribution to the development of a favourable background for the facilitation of stakeholder engagement and cooperation in the Urban Freight Transport sector, and especially in presenting the tools that the project is developing to:
- measure, understand and better communicate the information on the impacts of urban freight transport of construction projects,
- estimate the impact of some policy measures (e.g. consolidation centres, size of the vehicles, euro class of the vehicles) on the sustainability of projects
- discuss these measures with a cooperative approach involving different stakeholders (local administrations, contractors, t&l companies)
- identify which measures can work best in each specific case
- estimate the costs and benefits associated to each measure, and especially to Construction Consolidation Centres.
About SUCCESS
SUCCESS is a European research project coordinated by LIST and financed by the H2020 programme, which targets the construction industry as one of the largest consumers of urban freight transport. It aims to make the most of this sector’s enormous potential for improvement by exploring and testing new tools and methods, including the potential creation of Construction Consolidation Centres, in order to provide replicable solutions and improve the use of the existing transport infrastructure and the level of cooperation among the different stakeholders of the construction supply chain.
>> More info at www.list.lu/en/project/success
SUCCESS project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 633338.
