The project CITYLAB aims to improve the understanding of the impacts freight and service trips have in our urban areas. Innovative urban freight management solutions will be tested and evaluated in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Oslo, Paris, Rome and Southampton with a view to positively influencing business profitability and contributing to increased efficiency and sustainability. The core of CITYLAB is to use cities as ‘living laboratories’, dynamic, real-world test environments where different public and private freight transport measures can be evaluated, adapted and improved in a cyclical way.
Project
Within CITYLAB DLR will be task leader of task 5.6 “Assessment of roll-out potential to other Living labs”. DLR will participate in work packages Knowledge development and data management, Evaluation, and Living lab interaction and transfer.
Objectives
Goods, waste and service trips in urban areas impose negative traffic and environmental impacts, and there is a need for cost-effective and sustainable solutions. The CITYLAB objective is to develop knowledge and solutions that result in up-scaling and roll-out of strategies, measures and tools for emission-free city logistics in urban centres by 2030. The project focuses on four axes for intervention:
CITYLAB aims to:
Approach
The core of CITYLAB is a set of living laboratories, where cities work as contexts for innovation and implementation processes for public and private measures contributing to increased efficiency and sustainable urban logistics. Linkages will be established between the different living labs for exchange of experiences and to develop methodologies for transfer of implementations between cities and between companies. The outputs from the living labs will include best practice guidance on innovative approaches and how to replicate them. CITYLAB will lay the groundwork for roll-out, up-scaling and transfer of cost-effective policies and implementations that lead to increased load factors and reduced vehicle movements of freight and service trips in urban areas.
Contracting entity
The CITYLAB project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 635898.
Partners
Project duration
June 2015 - May 2018