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United States-European Commission Urban Freight Twinning Initiative: Compendium of Project Summaries
Overview of Second Annual Urban Freight Roundtable at 2017 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

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NOVELOG - New Cooperative Business Models and Guidance for Sustainable City Logistics

The mission of the NOVELOG project is to improve the understanding of urban freight distribution and service trips so that cities can both implement effective and sustainable policies and measures, and facilitate stakeholder collaboration for sustainable city logistics.

The project will produce four tools to strengthen the capacity of local authorities and stakeholders:

  1. Understanding Cities: A city-level platform for building a common view among stakeholders on the urban freight environment and for reaching consensus on the current and future state of the urban freight transport (UFT) environment.
  2. Evaluation: A multi-criteria, multi-stakeholder evaluation tool composed of 5 assessment modules and 140 indicators that are grouped into 7 impact areas of a life cycle-based sustainability framework.
  3. Toolkit: A tool that enables cities to identify potential logistics strategies or measures and their impacts based on a set of city parameters.
  4. Guidance: A guidance framework to support cities to incorporate UFT solutions in their Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), enabling collaborative schemes among private and public sector stakeholders, participating in the decisionmaking and operation of UFT policies and measures.
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NOVELOG.
Source: Dr. Georgia Ayfantopoulou.

Project Type

Research

Period of Performance

June 2015 - May 2018

Project Site(s)

Six Pilots: Athens, Barcelona, Graz, Mechelen, Rome, Turin

Six Case Studies: Copenhagen, Emilia Romagna Region (Italy), Gothenburg, London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Pisa, Venice

Website

www.novelog.eu

Contact

Dr. Georgia Ayfantopoulou
Project Coordinator
Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)
+30 2310498451
GeA@certh.gr
NovelogOffice@certh.gr

Challenges Addressed

  • Environmental sustainability
  • Traffic congestion

Expected Outcomes

The main outcomes of the project will be the NOVELOG tools (Understanding Cities, Evaluation, Toolkit, Guidance), which are intended to help cities make decisions regarding urban freight. However, the project also has additional outcomes such as:

  • A data collection framework.
  • An evaluation framework.
  • The development of multi-stakeholder platforms (or freight quality partnerships) in the NOVELOG cities.
  • The development of urban freight roadmaps and strategies.

Stakeholder Involvement

The NOVELOG project involves partners from a variety of experts in the field of urban freight transport, ensuring the knowledge of the academic sector, the experience of cities, the expertise of consultants, and the multiplier effect of European networks.

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