CITY PORTS – CITY PORTS - a city net following a co-ordinated approach to develop feasible and sustainable city logistics solutions

2A033

Regione Emilia Romagna
Viale a Moro 38
40127 Bologna
Italy

Mr. Rino Rosini
Tel.:	+39051283831
Fax:	+39051283169
Email:	rrosini@regione.emilia-romagna.it
Homepage:	http://www.cityports.net

2 - Transport systems and IS
2.1 - Efficient transport systems

(See here for a priorities and measures overview)

1st Call

Traffic-related problems are spreading: Freight transport and distribution are strongly influencing and increasing traffic congestion, pollution and noise within cities, thus reducing the quality of life. The phenomenon is wide-spread and has become common in urban areas all around CADSES. Especially for very short distances, the competition between different modes of transport, models and technologies is distorted as transport users and operators face prices that do not reflect the full social and environmental costs of transport. Therefore, to allow city logistics to provide the best economic, social and environmental performances, public administrations must define and follow adequate processes for problem investigation, solution design and their implementation. These policy processes shall consider several topics at once as regards supply chain management, urban zoning, traffic management, transit points and low emission vehicles. The main aims of the CITY PORTS project were the reorganisation and process re-engineering in city logistical solutions for small and medium-sized urban systems by empowering “the last miles' nodes” of EU infrastructure and information networks in a coherent, efficient and sustainable way.

The project was aimed at urban traffic reduction through a better and more rational use of freight transport networks (efficient distribution routes, higher level of saturation of vehicles, fleet management optimisation). Traffic congestion and environmental pollution were reduced by the planning systems, interventions on access policy and by decreasing the number of transport vehicles or the adoption of low impact vehicles and transport vehicles using alternative fuels. The following cities were involved in the CITY PORTS project as pilot contexts for local, but co-ordinated actions: - The cities of Brescia, Parma, Vicenza and Vienna (featuring two pilot actions with distinct concepts): The cities of this group had already defined the focus of their proposed implementations at the beginning of the projects (from previously acquired know-how); they followed slightly different approaches in terms of analysis of demand and supply, nevertheless they contributed - in parallel - to the definition of the CITY PORTS common methodology and they provided experimental information and a sort of “anticipated feedback” to the rest of the project partners; - The cities of Graz, Kavala, Taranto and Udine, which developed their local activities making use of the methodology and the tools as elaborated within the CITY PORTS project. Besides the cities mentioned here which were formally involved in the project, many other cities in the Emilia-Romagna region adopted the CITY PORTS approach and methodology in the framework of a regional policy (funding) initiative which constituted a type of parallel follow-up effect of this CADSES project.

Total budget (EUR):	4.774.334,00 EUR
ERDF:	2.393.500,00 EUR

Start:	07/2001
End:	07/2005

• Regione Emilia Romagna, Bologna, Italy
• State Government of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• Centre for Research and Technology – Hellas/Hellenic Institute of Transport, Thessaloniki, Greece
• SCS Azioninnova Spa , Bologna, Italy
• IC Consulenten Ziviltechniker GmbH, Vienna, Austria
• Transeuropean Consultants for Transport, Develop. and Technology (TREDIT) S.A., Thessaloniki, Greece
• Comune di Udine, Udine, Italy
• Comune di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy
• Comune di Ancona, Ancona, Italy
• Comune di Taranto, Taranto, Italy
• Brescia Mobilità – Società Metropolitana di Mobilità, Brescia, Italy
• Comune di Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy
• Infomobility S.p.A., Parma, Italy
• IT.CITY S.p.A., Parma, Italy
• Comune di Parma, Parma, Italy
• Prefecture of Kavala, Kavala, Greece
• Region of Attika, Athens, Greece
• City Courier Service Speditions GmbH, Vienna, Austria
• LOB Logistik und Organisationsberatungs GmbH, Vienna, Austria
• Forschungsgesellschaft Mobilität – Austrian Mobility Research (Graz), Graz, Austria
• The Agency for Regional Development of Ljubljana Urban Region, Ljubljana, Slovenia