ANNONA - Decision making for designing sustainable urban logistics solutions
Overview
Background & policy context:
In order to promote and manage innovative urban freight transport solutions, public authorities should be able to forecast the related economic sustainability and their environmental and societal benefits.
Existing studies on urban freight transport issues allowed the creation of an extensive knowledge of good practices in urban logistics. However, this knowledge remained relatively fragmented and scattered. As a result, designing and implementing relevant solutions for urban logistics remained a rather complex task for policy makers, especially when it comes to forecast the economic viability, as well as environmental and societal benefits of the different scenarios to be taken into account.
The ANNONA project intended to provide decision-makers with the means to assess a-priori urban logistics improvement policies via an IT tool based on a geographic information system (GIS).
Objectives:
The ANNONA project tackled the issue of designing urban logistic patterns through the development of an IT tool used as a support to identify concrete solutions (urban freight delivery, vehicle fleet, regulations, etc.) that should be collectively promoted and implemented by different stakeholders involved in the management of the logistic sector (i.e. administrative level, chamber of commerce and industry, carriers, retailers, etc).
Methodology:
The project was structured around five main tasks:
- understanding of the urban system model
- identification and characterisation of innovative actions in city-logistic
- conception and realisation of the modelling tool
- validation / case studies
- dissemination
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