Project overview
The CITYLAB project (completed in April 2018) adopted living lab methods (joint stakeholder co-operation and innovation) to test various freight initiatives in the cities of Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Paris, Oslo, Rome and 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载.
In 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载, the overriding objective was to improve air quality along key transport corridors, with the main focus on large municipal organisations such as 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 General Hospital, 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 City Council and 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载’s two universities to investigate opportunities for joint procurement and consolidation of goods to reduce environmental impacts.
The 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 Sustainable Distribution Centre at Nursling, operated by project partner Meachers Global Logistics, offered a consolidation service, with take-up from the hospital for temporary storage and transportation of automated dispensing units and planning for consolidation of pharmacy goods transport.
Consolidations of items delivered to student halls of residence were investigated in case studies although not implemented.
CITYLAB partner 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 City Council contributed to air quality concerns by initiating plans to switch a significant proportion of its own-operated vehicle fleet to electric vehicles, and the first six vehicles arrived in January 2018.
Further information is available on the legacy project website
