City Logistics in Calabria Region

Freight vehicles are mainly responsible for atmospheric and noise pollution, road congestion and risk of accidents with negative effects on the citizens quality of life, logistic costs and attractiveness of shopping areas. Calabria Regional Transport Plan (2016) promotes the implementation of measures, in the framework of city logistic, to achieve UE goals of zero-carbon in urban areas by 2030. Calabria Region wants to encourage the reduction of fossil fuels in freight urban distribution through the limitation of the most polluting goods vehicles.
Examples of applied measures:
• Regulation of the supply;
• Time windows;
• Accesses with reference to the dimensions of freight vehicles;
• Use of preferential lanes for local public transport;
• Accesses with an NDA network (Nearby Delivery Area);
• Integration with long-distance intermodal transport with UDC (Urban Distribution Centre);
• Demand management;
• Cooperation between stakeholders, local public and private partnerships;
• Rationalization of distribution;
• Infrastructural interventions;
• Delivery area network (including booking) within Limited Traffic Zone (LTZ);
• UDC and NDA;
• Pick-up Point to support the new online purchase models (e-commerce);
• ICT and ITS applications;
• Specific app or services on existing telematics networks;
• Traffic management and control (including delivery area booking);
• Use of eco-friendly and innovative vehicles;
• Reverse logistics.