Efforts to reduce negative externalities of urban logistics vehicle movements often concentrate on two aspects; organizing logistics more efficiently in order to reduce the number of incoming vehicles in urban areas and reducing the emissions of vehicles within urban areas. The stopping practices are …

There is a lot of attention for the reduction of city logistics’ emissions. But also if city logistics’ vehicles are zero emission, the vehicles remain present in urban areas. Zero emission vehicles also occupy valuable urban space during unloading on the road and on sidewalks. Despite the spatial impact …

The HARMONY project supports and enables several metropolitan areas to lead a sustainable transition to a low-carbon new mobility era. For city logistics, innovative services and developments can serve as promising solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption in metropolitan areas. …

To realize a more sustainable city logistics system the focus should go beyond reducing emissions only. Next to zero emission vehicles, reduction of urban logistics trips is required in light of several urban, environmental and economic challenges. This contribution focuses on the role of hubs and decoupling …

Cities all over the world are rethinking their mobility policies in light of environmental and quality of life objectives. As space is one of cities’ scarcest resources, mobility’s spatial footprint is increasingly scrutinized as externality to mitigate. Similar to passenger transport, goods transport …

Samenvatting De aanleiding voor deze bijdrage is het onderzoek geplande onderzoek in CILOLAB2 dat antwoord moet gaan geven op de centrale vraag: “op welke wijze en in welke mate kan een ‘cityport’ bijdragen aan het verder in de praktijk mogelijk maken van duurzame logistiek?”. Er zijn verschillende redenen …

Research finds that the global market value of cargo bikes will hit 2.4 billion euros by 2031. Analysts with Future Market Insights assessing the growth of cargo bikes have placed the parcel courier industry as a key buyer of electric cargo bikes, forecasting that 43 per cent of sales could go to this …

De vaste kamercommissie EZK besprak de effecten van de bezorgeconomie. Experts hebben hierover een factsheet gemaakt: Wat zijn de effecten van onlinewinkelen voor de mobiliteit, het milieu en de leefomgeving en welke aanvullende maatregelen kan Nederland nemen voor een efficiëntere en duurzamere bezorgeconomie? …

Omdat het aanbod van elektrische bestelwagens en vrachtauto’s snel toeneemt ligt voor ondernemers het elektrificeren van het goederenvervoer van en naar de stad voor de hand. Maar die stap roept ook allerlei vragen op: Hoe kunnen transporteurs hun werk doen met elektrische voertuigen die regelmatig opgeladen …

Cities’ sustainability strategies seem to aim at the reduction of the negative impacts of urban freight transport. In the past decades, many public and private initiatives have struggled to gain broad stakeholder support and thus remain viable. Researchers and practitioners have only recently recognised …