New 4.4 Million EUR, three year European Commission funded project aims to boost cooperation and understanding in urban freight distribution and service trips to further improve efficiency in road freight transport.
ERTICO-ITS EUROPE, alongside 27 partners, have launched the EU funded NOVELOG project.
The objective of NOVELOG is to enable knowledge and understanding of freight distribution and service trips by providing guidance for implementing effective and sustainable policies and measures.
NOVELOG will innovate by progressing beyond the state-of-art in urban freight and city logistics within a triple helix of (1) evaluation framework development, data collection, and empirical analyses, (2) specific demonstrators and case studies and (3) guidelines for Europe-wide take-up of the best policies and solutions.
These activities will be accompanied by the production of practical tools that could support the take-up impact of NOVELOG project to wider international city and industrial networks and beyond the project’s lifetime.
- Pilot cities will deploy live small scale demonstration tests of policies & measures: ATHENS, TURIN, GRAZ, ROME, BARCELONA, MECHELEN
- Case studies cities will project, study and assess measures: EMILIA ROMAGNA REGION, GOTHENBURG, VENICE, COPENHAGEN, PISA, LONDON BOR. OF BARKING & DAGENHA
- Share knowledge and experience exchange activities with International parties : CITY OF MELBOURNE, ROAD OPERATIONS, VICROADS, VICTORIA, WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, THE SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS
Coordinated by CERTH/HIT, the project was officially launched in Thessaloniki, where all the major stakeholders participated to discuss first steps for their work. ERTICO-ITS EUROPE would be leading activities related to knowledge and understanding of freight distribution and service trips coming from the cities. ERTICO would also be coordinating activities related to International Cooperation and pilot site workshops which will be organised in the context of the project.
