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CENIT heads up innovative pilots to create foundations for a fossil-fuel free transportation zone business model for small businesses<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The post-pandemic growth of e-commerce<\/strong> has raised concerns about the viability of small businesses being able to survive in a fossil-fuel free transportation zone<\/strong>. The pilot study – led by Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) with consortium members from Sweden and the Netherlands and funded by EIT Urban Mobility and Horizon Europe – aims to create a test bed to help small businesses by incorporating them into the business model using cargo bikes and dynamic publicity.<\/p>\n

As we discussed in our recent article\u00a0 Practical procurement guide for public transport buses<\/a> – Cenit | Science for Transport a quarter of all man-made CO2 emissions are produced by transport, leading to an unsustainable and intolerable situation in our cities and metropolitan areas. With increasing restrictions being placed on the access to cities \u2013 large and small \u2013 in an attempt to reduce congestion and pollution there are of course winners and losers: small businesses that cannot adapt their fleet to the LEZ immediately being adversely affected by the new legislation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Our joint mission is to create a solution for the last mile delivery operators<\/strong> that do not own, and are unlikely in the short-term to be able to afford, a low emissions fleet by creating cycle logistics hubs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at the two cities in question.<\/p>\n

Barcelona’s Low Emissions Zone<\/strong> (LEZ) came into force last year for private vehicles and this year it will also be applied to freight transport. The main challenge for the AMB \u2013 in charge of managing and the planning of all mobility services in Barcelona’s 3.2 million metropolitan area – is to create two shared urban consolidation and distribution centres (UCDC) on the borders of Barcelona’s LEZ. The idea being to create cycle logistics hubs that will start the transition from conventional freight to electric vehicles <\/strong>(cargo bikes and small e-vehicles).<\/p>\n

Stockholm<\/strong> on the other hand has a LEZ, however is considering additional access requirements since the city aims to be fossil-fuel free by 2030<\/strong>. Here the project has a similar aim, seeking to identify locations, methods and stakeholders who can work together to achieve fossil-fuel free deliveries and improve logistics in the urban environment.<\/p>\n

So the future is looking somewhat brighter. And the idea is to replicate the business model<\/strong> to other cities. At CENIT our experienced researchers in optimization of freight distribution routes, urban mobility, and smart city solutions<\/strong> we will be offering a toolkit and consultancy services related to location to future hubs and cities and will be responsible for the service commercialization.<\/p>\n

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The Latin American Development Bank report highlights the current investment gap in the region and reviews intervention strategies to tackle future challenges and trends<\/h3>\n[\/fusion_text][fusion_text columns=\"\" column_min_width=\"\" column_spacing=\"\" rule_style=\"default\" rule_size=\"\" rule_color=\"\" hide_on_mobile=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\" class=\"\" id=\"\"]\n\nIncreased and sustained investment in infrastructure is of paramount importance for economic growth in any region, and nowhere is this truer than in the Latin American region where inconsistent and insufficient investment<\/strong> was noted as the main cause of slower economic growth<\/strong> during the mid-term period 2007-2012. Falling investment in transport infrastructure and logistics has had a knock-on effect on the commercial development of the region as a whole.\n\nThe Latin American Development Bank, founded 50 years ago, recently funded an investment analysis study of the region\u00b4s intercity land transport sector, focusing specifically on road and rail. Irene de Cubas, CENIT\u00b4s Research Engineer for the report explains\n\n\"We know there is a direct correlation between a country or region\u00b4s GDP and transport infrastructure. In fact, Latin America<\/strong> is an extreme case, having a very limited transport network in relation to land area and population. So this is what we would call an infrastructure gap<\/strong>, in other words the need for investment projects to gradually bring the region in line or on an even footing with other regions such or Europe, North America or Asia Pacific to encourage long term increased economic growth and prosperity as a whole\".\n\nSpecifically, the report highlights:\n\n- Performance and sustainability indicators<\/strong> and impact of new technologies\n- Capacity and demand measures<\/strong> to determine the need for future investment\n- Gap analysis<\/strong> comparing land transport infrastructure to the OECD objective\n- Overriding trends and challenges<\/strong> in the transport sector\n- Social and environmental effects<\/strong>\n- The impacts of expected technological innovations and the expected medium and long-term effects for Latin America\n- The need to establish criteria<\/strong> for selecting those projects that can provide the greatest added value, the focus being to prioritise profitable and sustainable projects\n\nAs with all long term strategic investment projects, it\u00b4s not just about doing things right, but in fact doing the right thing in the first place.\n\n[\/fusion_text][fusion_youtube id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DSagX8dknQI\" alignment=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" autoplay=\"false\" api_params=\"&rel=0\" hide_on_mobile=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\" class=\"\" css_id=\"\" \/][\/fusion_builder_column][\/fusion_builder_row][\/fusion_builder_container]","_et_gb_content_width":"","slim_seo":{"title":"A tale of two cities: Barcelona and Stockholm pilot cities for low emissions last mile delivery - CIMNE","description":"CENIT heads up innovative pilots to create foundations for a fossil-fuel free transportation zone business model for small businesses"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[284,40],"tags":[459,470,469,460,468,467,466,465,471,464,462],"class_list":["post-251150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cenit","category-innovation-news","tag-city-life","tag-covid19","tag-distribution","tag-emissions","tag-freight","tag-hubs","tag-last-mile-delivery","tag-logistics","tag-pandemic","tag-smartcity","tag-urban-mobility"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}