Detailed description (English): ULaaDS stands for Urban Logistics as an on-Demand Service.
Our vision is to foster sustainable and liveable cities through the deployment of innovative, shared, zero-emission logistics, while dealing with the impact of the on-demand economy.
ULaaDS will use a combination of innovative technology solutions (vehicles, equipment &; infrastructure), new schemes for horizontal collaboration (driven by the sharing economy) and policy measures and interventions as catalysts for systemic change in urban and peri-urban service infrastructure.
Three municipalities committed to zero emissions city logistics - Bremen, Mechelen and Groningen - have joined forces with logistics stakeholders, and leading academic institutions to accelerate the deployment of these solutions, addressing major upcoming challenges generated by the rising of on-demand economy in urban logistics. Rome, Edinburgh, Bergen and Alba Iulia will follow the process and feed into the overall project methodology and co-create additional urban freight solutions.
The project will research the existing and future challenges linked to the on-demand economy and will develop adapted solutions that will be trialled and monitored in the partner cities. The cities will experiment with containerised urban last-mile delivery, city-wide platforms for integrated management of urban logistics, integration of passenger and urban freight mobility services and networks, transport vehicle capacity sharing, integration of logistics activities into urban planning at both local and regional level, and deployment of zero-emission vans and cargo-bikes.
The project will produce a comprehensive methodology of the process with its results, challenges and recommendations for solutions to be replicated in other cities.
Partner: Lighthouse pilot cities: Bremen, Groningen and Mechelen.
Satellite cities: Rome, Bergen, Edinburgh and Alba Iulia.
Industry and logistics partners: UPS, Belgian Post, Rytle, Dropper, ViaVan, ECOkoriers
Mechelen, OV Bureau Groningen & Drenthe, the Bremen State Association of the General German Bicycle Club (ADFC), and consulting service providers Bax & Company and Miebach Consulting.
Research institutions: Fraunhofer IML Dortmund, the Research Association for Mobility in Austria (FGM), the Norwegian Institute for Transport Economics (TØI), the University of Groningen, and tbnlr (to-be-now-logistics-research-gmbh).
Associations/networks as multipliers: the European city network Eurocities and the Flemish logistics association VIL.