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 todays 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 page 7-8 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)
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) freight operators (blue) vehicle manufacturers (green) others (pink)
presentations of the two projects and on two sessions: the Parallel Breakout Session was a parallel brainstorming session on logistic and vehicle solutions; the Plenary Session involved all participating stakeholders with the aim of depicting their wishes for an efficient city logistics chain.
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.
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Stakeholders Group
Administrators
Stakeholders Needs
Use Case
In order to improve urban development, modal integration and quality of life, administrators want to focus on micro-terminals for urban freight distribution. 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). 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. Some producers (senders) need tailormade city logistics solutions (i.e. their shipments to be consolidated with non-competitors ones). Truck and vehicle manufacturers need to reduce primarily the vehicles operational costs (fuel consumption, maintenance etc).
Freight Carriers
Residents
Need fulfilled
Shippers
Truck/vehicle Manufacturers
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 lAtmosphre (PPA: Atmosphere Protection Plan), covering the whole urban area The French government, through its local department (Direction Dpartementale des Territoires du Rhne 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
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 dplacements 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.
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 vhicles.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 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.
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.
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 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 Europes cities.
Urban freight transport 2010
Albert Borschette
BRUSSELS,
PR OGRAMME
Conference Centre
16 & 17 Novemb
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