Urban freight partnerships: Why they’re needed and how to ensure their success
With e-commerce on the rise, construction booming, waste generation increasing and grocery delivery expanding, the need for urban freight plans and policies is growing. However, a 2021 survey by the European Commission found that only 13% of member cities had a specific plan for addressing logistics. Many municipalities don’t know where to start as few have staff dedicated to working on urban freight issues.
To support stakeholder engagement programs, EDF has released a new report to guide local governments on how to develop, implement and evaluate an Urban Freight Partnership. While there are some existing documents related to this topic, EDF’s approach stands out as the report is coupled with a how-to guide, which houses nine templates serving as easy to use tools for municipalities to get started.
Stakeholder engagement
The report highlights the importance of stakeholder engagement in freight planning and why municipalities need to prioritise its role in transport planning. In addition, the document walks readers through the three elements of stakeholder engagement: development, implementation and evaluation.
Further reading
- ULaaDs - Urban Logistics as an on-Demand Service, 2021-2022 (Project)
- SULPiter - Sustainable Urban Logistics Planning to Enhance Regional Freight Transport, 2016-2020 (Project)
- Governance and the stakeholders' engagement in city logistics: the SULPiTER methodology and the Bologna application (Paper)
- Simulating participatory urban freight transport policy-making: Accounting for heterogeneous (Paper) stakeholders' preferences and interaction effects (Paper)
- Towards a decision-support procedure to foster stakeholder involvement and acceptability of urban freight transport policies (Paper)
- Transnational Freight Quality Partnership Meetings (Report)
- Freight Quality Partnerships - the NE England experience (Presentation)
- How to build stakeholder participation in collaborative urban freight planning, 2021 (Paper)
- Cities-Regions and companies working together: Guide for advancing towards zero-emission urban logistics by 2030, 2021 (Report)
- Minnesota Department of Transportation Stakeholder Engagement Plan, 2021 (Plan)
- Shaping Urban Freight Systems via a Participatory Approach to Inform Policy-Making, 2020 (Paper)
- The potential for coordinated logistics planning at the local level: A Norwegian in-depth study of public and private stakeholders, 2019 (Paper)
- Zero Emission Urban Freight: A TDA Whitepaper on how to reach zero emission urban freight by uniting Countries, Cities/Regions and Companies, 2019 (Report)
- Stakeholder engagement and partnerships for improved urban logistics, 2019 (Book)
- Settle Area Freight Quality Partnership, 2017 (Program)
- Framework for ongoing stakeholder engagement in policies for urban freight logistics in Singapore, 2017 (Paper)
- Urban Freight Lab at the University of Washington, 2016 (Program)
- Stakeholder's Perceptions of City Logistics: An exploratory study in Brazil, 2015 (Paper)
- Successes and Failings of an Urban Freight Quality Partnership - The Story of the Gothenburg Local Freight Network, 2014 (Paper)
- FQPs: An international study, 2014 (Presentation)
- Freight Quality Partnerships in the UK - an analysis of their work and achievements, 2010 (Paper)
- Central London Freight Quality Partnership, 2006 (Program)
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