Highlights from Open ENLoCC President Giuseppe Luppino’s speech at the webinar organised by Scandria®Alliance In the near future, the number of cities classified as urban… Read More »Navigating the future of urban nodes. All the challenges European cities will have to face in order to efficiently manage last-mile urban logistics
On 12 and 13 September, the second consortium meeting of Food4CE was held in Poznań, Poland, hosted by Łukasiewicz – Poznański Instytut Technologiczny. Project partners… Read More »The Food4CE consortium (of which OpenEnlocc is a member) visiting the Agricultural and Orchard Experimental Farm Przybroda
OPEN ENLoCC, the European network of Logistics Competence Centres, working to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the logistics sector, today announced the hiring of… Read More »The OPEN ENLoCC team grows and announces the arrival of two new staff members
OPEN ENLoCC Joins Forces with GRETA to Revolutionize Last-Mile Delivery in Central Europe
Food4CE, funded by the INTERREG Central Europe Program, is a dynamic three-year project that strives to make Central Europe’s food networks more sustainable and accessible.
European Network of Logistics Competence Centers Takes on a Leading Role in Communication activities in FOOD4CE
“SUStainable PORTs”, or SusPort for short, is a project among ports along the Adriatic coast to enhance their environmental sustainability, decarbonisation and energy efficiency in the Eusair Area – from Trieste to Bari, from Rijeka to Dubrovnik. It is a strategic project of the Italy-Croatia CBC Programme within the European Union’s “Interreg V-A” programme and will be completed by this June.
Global and urban freight transport and logistics have become significantly important for economies and societies, on urban level as well as globally. Towards sustainable development, European cities therefore need a development strategy for intelligent transportation systems. Several projects are already in place, aiming at the deployment of automated and cleaner logistics service solutions:
Automated Vehicle (AV) fleets is an example of such a solution for first/last mile delivery and for the distribution of specific loads throughout agglomerations. The intention is to deliver passengers and goods by a fleet of automated vehicles, using “mix and match” schemes. Within a number of research and innovation projects, as the automated “logistics as a service” concepts are being modelled, developed and verified through demonstration cases in specified scenarios. Here, we present “SHOW” and “Augmented CCAM” as project examples.
The different elements making up the logistic system, being part of a remarkably competitive context, are permanently subjected to strong pressure towards optimising performances primarily for the key goal of maximising profits. Moreover, ever-growing concerns about environmental sustainability are also pushing the quest for cost-efficient and less impacting solutions. On these bases, it could seem that there should be no room for further major gains in efficiency, except for those directly resulting from big investments in infrastructure realisation and advanced technological innovation.
The Scandria®Alliance is a cooperation platform for cities and regions between Scandinavia and the Adriatic Sea. The members of the Alliance aim to strengthen the shortest geographical connection between Scandinavia and the Adriatic as a regional development and transport axis. To this end, they work together on climate-smart, multimodal transport connectivity, so it can function as an interface to sustainable regional development.