Sustainable Urban Logistics PlannIng To Enhance Regional freight transport
SULPiTER is for policies and authorities thirsty for improving their urban freight mobility planning. Transport is the second largest energy-using sector, with a 32% share of final energy consumption (source CE Thematic Study). According to OECD 20% of energy consumption is attributable to freight transport. The EC has set the ambitious goal of CO2-free city logistics by 2030. This does not only call for public policy actions, but for a shift in the paradigm of policies. In fact 82% of Europeans will live in cities by 2050, thus increasing the complexity of urban contexts and the significance of urban freight transport. Urban freight issues thus need to be tackled in the perspective of Functional Urban Areas (FUAs), taking into consideration the functional transport & economic relations between inner urban centres (the usual and limited territorial target of public regulations) and the surrounding urban territories, as well as the functional transport & economic relations within FUAs not affecting downtowns. This is the only way for policies to achieve impacts according to the territorial and economic development of CE urban areas. SULPiTER has a mission to support policy makers in improving their understanding of FUAs freight phenomena in an energy and environmental perspective, enhancing their capacity in urban freight mobility planning in order to develop & adopt Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans - SULPs. Policy makers in Bologna, Budapest, Poznan, Brescia, Stuttgart, Maribor and Rijeka, which are representative of CE typical Functional Urban Areas will engage, in cooperation with further local, regional and national non-partner authorities and with technical partners, in a transnational policy capacity building exercise, in the development of transnational analytical and governance tools, resulting in improved and adopted policies for the future energy and environmental sustainability of freight transport in Central Europe FUAs.