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• Strategies for a more sustainable logistics model in middle cities: lessons learnt from the first Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans implemented in Catalonia

  E. Alvarez Palau, C. Gutiérrez, M. Roig, C. Rivero

  Abstracts_4rceec (2024). 106

  
  

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  Twenty years after passing the Mobility Law of Catalonia, there have been notable changes in the way people move. The gradual approval of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans has led to an infrastructural adaptation, a supply of mobility services that favour the most sustainable modes of transport, and a gradual increase in the demand of users to gradually assimilate the new paradigm. However, the other transport-related sector, urban freight distribution, has not followed the same dynamic. It is true that logistics companies have been implementing strategies to optimize costs - by reducing kilometres travelled - and emissions - by adapting vehicle fleets - but the increase in the number of B2C eCommerce deliveries has magnified the externalities caused. Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans (SULP) arise as a new instrument to precisely revert this trend, providing new methodologies that must lead to new strategies to be implemented in the municipalities. This work aims to compile the main lessons learnt from the drafting process of the first four SULP of medium-sized Catalan cities. In this way, a public debate will be launched regarding the suitability of this new instrument and the recommendations for local authorities aiming to follow this initiative.

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  Twenty years after passing the Mobility Law of Catalonia, there have been notable changes in the way people move. The gradual approval of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans [...]

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