The European sustainable mobility landscape is undergoing a profound transformation as cities and regions across the continent seek to reconcile increasing demands for efficient logistics with ambitious climate and liveability goals. Two cutting-edge initiatives — the UNCHAIN project, funded under the EU’s Horizon programme, and the MoLo Hubs project, supported through the Interreg North Sea Region programme — have each advanced innovation in urban logistics and mobility. Although they operate under different funding frameworks and regional priorities, their core missions converge on enabling sustainable, people-centred urban systems.
UNCHAIN is a Horizon Europe project enabling seamless cooperation between public authorities and logistics stakeholders. UNCHAIN has developed a suite of data-driven services designed to optimise logistics operations. The services developed aim to optimise urban operations, plan for smart cities, and move towards climate-neutrality. MoLo Hubs, operating within the Interreg North Sea Region, has taken a complementary but distinct approach, integrating logistics and shared mobility services into urban mobility hubs to reduce commercial traffic and make shared mobility more attractive and functional.
Amongst other tools, UNCHAIN develops a monitoring tool that, in real-time, monitors the occupancy status of parking spaces and regulates their use to avoid potential abuse, or tools that support the decision on the most appropriate location for new distribution and consolidation centres. A detailed presentation will be held on the FELU guidebook, a useful tool for planners for the Freight Efficient Land Use process. These Digital tools and services can be used in the planning stage of Mobility Hubs proposed by the MoLo Hubs project, supporting the optimisation of their land-use allocation and the efficiency of their operations.
This session will bring together MoLo Hubs and UNCHAIN to explore complementarities between physical urban logistics solutions and data-driven planning approaches. By combining these perspectives, the session will enable a discussion on how local pilots can inform wider urban freight strategies and how planning tools can support the scaling and replication of hub-based logistics solutions across European cities
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260330T115406 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260312T133000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260312T141500 LOCATION:2. SUMMIT THEATRE 2 SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en_us:Planning for logistics access TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR