Sustainable Urban Goods logistics Achieved by Regional and local policies

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SUGAR focuses on addressing the problem of inefficient and ineffective management of urban freight distribution, a critical component of the overall urban transport system and a primary source of vehicle pollutant emissions. To accomplish this, SUGAR promotes the exchange, discussion and transfer of policy experience, knowledge and good practices in the field of urban freight management, with regards to policy and planning levers between and among advanced and less experienced sites. SUGAR bases its approach on the study of EU good practices for the development of tools to support policy making, including: • Training sessions, workshops and joint planning events, in which the administrations will directly benefit from participation through the knowledge gained and successively utilised in addressing national, regional and municipal policy developments; • Development of city logistics publications and training products, which will record the knowledge gained during SUGAR. The SUGAR sites use these tools to develop local action plans, outlining the local roadmap for city logistics policy development. Moreover, SUGAR actively dialogues with new transfer sites (at least 5) from outside the SUGAR partnership, offering support for bilateral exchange on selected topics as well as a training on city logistics. Altogether SUGAR contributes importantly to: • Increased capacity of public administration staff (partner and non-partner) in implementing more effective and efficient policy levers and planning approaches for city logistics; • Direct improvement of regional and local policies for city logistics (12 sites directly, with a second wave of minimum 5 sites in the enlarged transfer programme). The SUGAR partnership brings together: • 4 good practice sites in EU, representing the Emilia Romagna Region (IT) and primary EU cities such as London (through Transport for London) (UK), Paris (FR) and Barcelona (ES); • 8 transfer sites in EU, spanning from small to large cities and regions: Palma de Mallorca (ES), Region of Crete (GR), Athens (GR), Poznan (PL), Vratsa (BU), Celje (SL), Usti nad Labem (CZ), Pardubice (through Czech Rails - CZ); • 2 EU networks for identifying, developing and targeting key public administration stakeholders working in transport, differentiating between local/regional and national stakeholders: - POLIS (a network of approximately 70 EU city and regional administrations from 18 countries working on developing innovative technologies and policies for local transport) (BE); - CEI (a network primarily of national administrations from 18 central and eastern European countries with a specific Transport working group) (IT); • 3 public equivalent bodies involved in the policy making activities of three SUGAR sites: ITL (Regione Emilia Romagna site - IT), INRETS (Paris site - FR), ILIM (Poznan site - PL).

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