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CIVITAS Forum 17-19 October 2011 Funchal (Portugal) Lucia Cristea (EIP, dissemination manager)

Sustainable urban freight transport in historical cities : results from Renaissance. CIVITAS Forum 17-19 October 2011 Funchal (Portugal) Lucia Cristea (EIP, dissemination manager) Barry Ubbels (NEA Transport, evaluation manager).

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CIVITAS Forum 17-19 October 2011 Funchal (Portugal) Lucia Cristea (EIP, dissemination manager)

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  1. Sustainable urban freight transport in historical cities: results from Renaissance CIVITAS Forum 17-19 October 2011 Funchal (Portugal) Lucia Cristea (EIP, dissemination manager) Barry Ubbels (NEA Transport, evaluation manager)

  2. Sustainable transport strategies addressing freight in Renaissance and urban freight transport • Testing innovative strategies for clean urban transport for historic European cities • Sustainable urban transport facilitating tourism development • Five cities: • - Bath • - Perugia • - Szczecinek • - Gorna • - Skopje • Implementing innovative and integrated sustainable transport strategies CIVITAS Forum l17-19 October 2011 l Funchal lpresenter’s name and organisation

  3. Sustainable transport strategies addressing freight in Renaissance and urban freight transport • Urban freight deliveries are increasing • Detrimental to urban environments: pollution, safety, congestion and noise • Renaissance enhances a more sustainable freight transport development by awareness raising and more efficiency • Sustainable transport plans (Skopje, Szczecinek, Gorna), new technologies (Perugia) and new logistic concepts (Bath) CIVITAS Forum l17-19 October 2011 l Funchal lpresenter’s name and organisation

  4. Sustainable transport strategies addressing freight in Renaissance and urban freight transport • Szczecinek develops sustainable transport strategy addressing noise and emission from traffic • Skopje faces traffic problems and adopted sustainable transport plan: evaluation on stakeholder acceptance and awareness • Support to Gorna municipality with developing sustainable transport plan and raising awareness CIVITAS Forum l17-19 October 2011 l Funchal lpresenter’s name and organisation

  5. Bath: demand management of freight traffic • Negative freight traffic impact to World Heritage site key political concern • Reduce number of heavy vehicles that breach environmental weight restriction • Freight companies informed by letters after automatic vehicle recognition • No results yet CIVITAS Forum l17-19 October 2011 l Funchal lpresenter’s name and organisation

  6. 3 5 4 2 6 7 8 Demand Management of Freight/Delivery Vehicles in Bath: Park Lane Upper Bristol Rd Windsor Bridge Road Demonstrator commenced May 2011 CIVITAS Forum l17-19 October 2011 l Funchal lpresenter’s name and organisation

  7. Bath: freight consolidation centre • Negative freight traffic impact to World Heritage site key political concern • Freight consolidation centre with city centre delivery by clean fuel vehicles • First results show a decrease in journey deliveries with 64% • To work with stakeholders to develop long-term business model together with Bristol CIVITAS Forum l17-19 October 2011 l Funchal lpresenter’s name and organisation

  8. Perugia • Severe traffic problems and preservation of historical city centre incentives for sustainable transport strategies • Demand management (car traffic, LTZ access), efficient car use and public transport • Innovation: Pipenet CIVITAS Forum l17-19 October 2011 l Funchal lpresenter’s name and organisation

  9. Perugia: Pipenet • Innovative transport system of vacuum sealed tubes to deliver freight packages • Feasibility of new infrastructure: cost-benefit analysis • Considerable costs against savings in emissions, congestion, noise from truck delivery • Much depends on scenarios (demand, length of system, price etc.) CIVITAS Forum l17-19 October 2011 l Funchal lpresenter’s name and organisation

  10. Sustainable transport strategies addressing freight in Renaissance: first lessons learned • Awareness of importance of sustainable transport is raising in Renaissance cities • Freight transport addressed in sustainable strategies, importance depends on problems identified • New concepts promising for upscaling • New infrastructure needs more innovation CIVITAS Forum l17-19 October 2011 l Funchal lpresenter’s name and organisation

  11. Thank you! For further information, please contact: Lucia Cristea or Barry Ubbels (bub@nea.nl) CIVITAS Forum l17-19 October 2011 l Funchal lpresenter’s name and organisation

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