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United States - European Commission Urban Freight Twinning Initiative: Compendium of Project Summaries, Volume II
Overview of 2018-2019 International Urban Freight Roundtables

SUCCESS

SUCCESS is one of the few research projects addressing freight transportation for the construction sector with a specific focus on:

  • Construction Supply Chain: Collecting real data from four pilot construction sites and analyzing them to measure the potential advantages for adopting collaborative tools, decision-support systems, and new practices.
  • Consolidation Centers: Measuring the potential impact of construction consolidation centers (CCCs) and finding a viable business model.

The aim of SUCCESS is to identify an integrated collaborative approach among all actors of the supply chain and a sustainable business model for CCCs with a focus on replicability across cities and countries. SUCCESS involves analyzing the current situation by collecting data on four pilot sites (in France, Italy, Luxembourg, and Spain) to detect problems and potential improvements to the construction supply chain; identifying solutions and optimization tools for the supply chain (GIS technologies, process mapping, business models, etc.); establishing numerical scenarios and simulations with and without CCCs for several scenarios to assess potential solutions; testing these different scenarios directly on the pilot sites; and developing a viable business model based on the feedback from the construction sites to ensure the take-up and replicability of the solutions.

Project Types

Research, Policy.

Period of Performance

May 2015 - April 2018.

Project Sites

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; Paris, France; Valencia, Spain; and Verona, Italy.

Contact

Francesco Ferrero
Lead Partnership Officer - Mobility, Logistics & Smart Cities
LIST (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Francesco.Ferrero@list.lu
(+352) 275 888 - 2227

Topics Addressed

  • Air quality/environment.
  • Economic competitiveness.
  • Last mile delivery.
  • Livability/quality of life.
  • Logistics/distribution.
  • Mobility/congestion.
  • Modeling.
  • Off-hours delivery.
  • Safety.
  • Supply chains.

Expected Outcomes

  • For all stakeholders: Tools to identify which best practices can work better in each specific case, using as a lead past performance in similar projects/urban environments in the European Union and the U.S.
  • For local administrations: Tools to better understand and communicate the impact of new policy measures, such as consolidation centers, size and class of admitted vehicles, etc.
  • For construction and transport/logistics companies: Tools to assess the costs and benefits related to the implementation of CCCs; sustainable business models to address issues in the construction supply chain, focusing on distribution networks, construction sites, and reverse logistics.
  • For research organizations: Datasets and tools to model and simulate the impact of several strategies to improve the supply chain of construction activities.

Stakeholder Involvement

Construction companies and local authorities were involved to collect data, which helped researchers develop methodological and technological tools. These stakeholders, including some from 12 non-partner cities in Europe, helped validate the project's findings.

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