Managing Urban Space for Sustainable Mobility and Logistics

This session explores how cities can strategically manage parking and urban space to enable sustainable and efficient mobility and logistics. Collaboration encourages partnerships and trust among retailers, service providers, local authorities and other mobility users to pool assets, share information and infrastructures - e.g. optimizing delivery routes and vehicle loads, curbside parking - by reducing emissions, operational costs and conflicts among diverse city players. 

The Horizon Europe project DISCO, complemented by perspectives on smart governance from the Horizon Europe project GOLIA, will unleash the potentials of the Physical Internet vision adopted to shared and multi-purpose spaces for people and goods, featuring collaborative models as key enablers for real urban transformation. Systemic and integrated transition to digitalization and decarbonization in urban mobility and logistics will be central in strategic management of urban space, prioritizing infrastructure and land use that supports low-carbon transport modes and resource efficiency. 

Aligning policies, incentivizing sustainable practices, and co-creating solutions ensures the integrated use of urban space management, and balances competing demands from residents, businesses, visitors and operators, leading to smart decision-making. Innovations such as regulatory sandboxes, pilot projects in Living Labs, and new partnerships, will scale the adoption of sustainable mobility, effective logistics solutions and smart governance.