Smart Urban Freight Logistics Hubs

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Date of latest update: 2024-09-18

Description

Description (EN):

Urban areas attract extensive flows of goods. Recent studies in cities show that substantial efficiency gains are possible if stakeholders cooperate and bundle freight on the last mile within urban areas using smart urban freight logistics hubs. Several challenges must be faced. Realizing a high level of efficiency in distribution within urban areas, being the core challenge of the project by 1) less freight transport 2) less pollution. Optimization of efficiency in urban logistics systems (last mile) have a positive effect on promoting efficient and sustainable multi modal transport. Through the ‘smart urban hub concept’, both sides of the logistics chain can be optimized.The focus of the project is the optimization of the interaction between the hub and the urban logistics system, promoting both efficient and sustainable logistics in urban areas in smaller and medium-sized cities, city regions and networks. (efficiency, sustainability, innovation)The novelty of this project is the combination of a system and supply chain approach in developing these hubs as to make them really ‘smart’. This means that we go beyond past experiments and pilot projects that focus foremost on location.By introducing city labs a transnational platform is created to promote innovation in city logistics. These platforms will bring together different actors to exchange knowledge, work on innovative pilot projects and implement results within policy strategies and the urban logistics system. Information added on 2020-05-18, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): One of the green logistics initaitives supported by SURFLOGH, Groningen-based Dropper, has experienced a surge of business during the Covid-19 crisis. This nimble cargo bike delivery service has turned out to be a success as restaurants have adapted and started to offer takeaway dinners and food. Dropper has even had requests to deliver in other cities, too. Based on the success of this delivery concept, the company is confident that much of the new business will continue even after the crisis has passed.

Achievements (EN):

Since 2017, the SURFLOGH project partners have successfully collaborated to develop, implement and share smart and sustainable solutions with public an private parties concerned with urban logistics. The livability of cities depends largely on improved air quality, noise reduction, proper accessibility and road safety. At the same time, we want to benefit from the advantages of city life - entrepreneurs and citizens alike - and continue to receive goods and parcels. This creates a certain tension on the cities' logistics networks. The joint effort of the SURFLOGH partners has resulted in a close collaboration between the public authorities (municipalities and (city) regions), logistics service providers and local retailers. In multiple pilots, all focusing on different aspects of urban logistics, the main goal was to achieve a reduced number of transport movements by conventional vehicles (diesel vans). Solutions ranged from the use of urban distribution hubs, electric vehicles, and cargo bikes to somewhat futuristic delivery solutions like autonomously driving vehicles and drones. In total, the project has executed over 10 pilot projects, which all reduced more than 150 conventional vehicle movements. With the development of logistics city hubs and locker services, in connection with the wide-scale use of electric vehicles and cargo bikes, almost 500,000 parcels have been delivered in a sustainable way. More than 100 new sustainable vehicles were deployed and tested, resulting in a significant reduction in emissions. These results have contributed to a significantly positive impact on the livability of the inner city zones related to the pilot projects. The projects of SURFLOGH are meant to create insights that last longer than the project's lifetime. The pilot projects were the backbone of work, but the insights from these pilots do not stand on their own. For every project the outcomes and effects were closely documented and for some projects an evaluation of the freight flows was executed. These evaluations are used to see whether logistics solutions could be viable in the future and in other cities and which aspects of these solutions are less future-proof and need further research. By creating five practical roadmaps towards sustainable logistics, other cities and regions can learn from insights from the SURFLOGH project. The five roadmaps dive deeper into stakeholder engagement, the role of the city/region in sustainable logistics, the implementation of hubs in the city, the do's and don'ts regarding parcel lockers, and a integrated approach towards concept development for urban logistics. Finally, multiple business models for logistics solutions were compared scientifically. Different logistics solutions, such as the use of cargo bikes, hubs, parcel lockers, were developed in close collaboration with local entrepreneurs. The role of the beneficiaries differed between these projects: sometimes the municipality was in the lead (policy focus), while in others the partners were more of an observer (pure market). Also, the way the municipalities steer on other aspects of urban logistics differs a lot between the cities as well. The insights of the SURFLOGH pilots have led to multiple scientific reports on business models, that have been presented at conferences all over Europe. Last but not least, a project video was produced to summarize the project and its main results in just a few minutes. This video was showed and shared at the events in the final year of the project. This short film helps telling the story in an easy and approachable manner, which eases further dissemination of the project results.

Website: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Thematic information

Urban development Logistics and freight transport

Specific Objective: Stimulate the take-up and application of green transport solutions for regional freight and personal transport

Thematic Objective: (07) promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures by:

Investment Priority: (07c) developing and improving environmentally-friendly (including low-noise) and low-carbon transport systems, including inland waterways and maritime transport, ports, multimodal links and airport infrastructure, in order to promote sustainable regional and local mobility

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Provincie Drenthe

Address: PO Box 122, 9400 AC Assen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.drenthe.nl

Total budget: EUR 919 772.00

ERDF budget: EUR 459 886.00

Borås Stad

Name: Borås Stad

Address: Kungsgatan 55, 501 80 Borås, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.boras.se

Total budget: EUR 773 676.00

ERDF budget: EUR 386 838.00

Gemeente Groningen

Name: Gemeente Groningen

Address: PO Box 30026, 9700 RM Groningen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.gemeente.groningen.nl/

Total budget: EUR 566 500.00

ERDF budget: EUR 283 250.00

Stad Mechelen

Name: Stad Mechelen

Address: Grote Markt 21, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.mechelen.be

Total budget: EUR 693 139.00

ERDF budget: EUR 346 569.00

South East Scotland Transport Partnership

Name: South East Scotland Transport Partnership

Address: Area 3D (Bridge), Victoria Quay, EH6 6QQ Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sestran.gov.uk/

Total budget: EUR 428 882.00

ERDF budget: EUR 214 441.00

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Province of Drenthe

Smart Urban Freight Logistics Hubs

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City of Borås

Smart Urban Freight Logistics Hubs

Partners and Projects info

City of Groningen

Smart Urban Freight Logistics Hubs

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City of Mechelen

Smart Urban Freight Logistics Hubs

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South East Scotland Transport Partnership

Smart Urban Freight Logistics Hubs

Lead partner

Project partner

Summary

Project name (EN): Smart Urban Freight Logistics Hubs

Project acronym: SURFLOGH

Project start date: 2017-06-15

Project end date: 2023-04-30

Project status: closed

Relevant precedent projects:

Relevant subsequent projects:

ULaaDS, Horizon 2020
URBANE, Horizon
GREEN-LOG, Horizon
UNCHAIN, EU funded

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 627 065.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 813 532.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, .

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Business Models in Action, Policy Frameworks and Interventions

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2022-07-15

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Development and implementation of mapping tools

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2022-04-19

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Development of the Business Model framework to be used in SURFLOGH

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2019-09-17

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Eindrapport, Smart and Shared Logistics Platform

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2021-04-30

Languages: nl

Attachment file: Download

Perth West Logistics Hub

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2023-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

Delivering on Sustainable Logistics by thinking inside the Box – a case study of a successful business model

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2019-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Eelde Case Study, The Intercept Business Model

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2022-07-19

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Sustaining the last freight mile. A Critical Literature Review

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2019-10-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

(F)aces of the Future | sessie 1

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2020-09-30

Languages: nl

20191114 SurfloghPM Drenthe

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2019-12-13

Languages: en

20200325 VLOG mechelenHackathon

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2020-03-30

Languages: nl, en

20200624 GemeenteGroningen Stadslogistiek V5 LANG variant ENG SUBS BAKEDIN

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2020-08-25

Languages: nl, en

20201008 Bpost V3 prproj 1

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2020-11-10

Languages: en

20210916 FaceOfTheFuture

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2022-09-22

Languages: en

Borashack3 1

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2020-05-18

Languages: en

Drone Delivery Services Video with subs

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2023-05-02

Languages: nl, en

Duurzame levering groot Interreg l

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2021-03-23

Languages: nl, en

Good goods film engelska

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2019-12-23

Languages: en

Hugo EU

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2022-06-16

Languages: en

Interreg Surfloch Prov Drenthe Pakketkluizen RTV Drenthe v2

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2021-01-27

Languages: nl

MAH02861

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2020-02-27

Languages: nl

Mechelen Surflogh (English subtitles)

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2022-10-04

Languages: nl, en

Mechelen1

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2019-10-17

Languages: en

SURFLOGH

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2022-05-03

Languages: en

surflogh BORAS long texted

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2019-11-27

Languages: en

Surflogh Final V21 7 2022

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2022-07-21

Languages: en

Surflogh Koers Noord Subtitled ENG

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2021-04-07

Languages: nl

Surflogh Zedify Video

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2023-01-27

Languages: en

surfloghvlog 1

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2019-04-29

Languages: en

The Surflogh Start Conference

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/surflogh

Publication date: 2024-12-04

Document date: 2018-11-22

Languages: en

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-02-14

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

73 / 73 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

871 / 871 (100%)

Notes on the data

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