2009-12: SUGAR AWARD 2010
Urban freight transport has a growing importance in the political agendas of EU cities and regions as it rises manifold challenges related to congestion, environmental protection, energy consumption, logistics management and business. Many public authorities have played and will play a key role in developing measures and actions aimed at optimising urban freight distribution and making their territories more attractive and liveable, also following the EC Action Plan on Urban Mobility.
Developing efficient freight transport systems in urban and metropolitan areas has nevertheless become an increasingly complex task which deals with urban and transport planning, infrastructural development, technological and technical innovation, logistics and business management and governance consolidation.
In particular the present EU scenario in city logistics calls for public actions which:
- Have a sound technical and analytical background.
- Are economically sustainable.
- Match business needs and environmental protection.
- Rely on public-private cooperation in city logistics solutions implementation.
The SUGAR award aims at sharing best practices and at providing a platform for communication and knowledge exchange among cities and local and regional contexts all over the EU on city logistics public actions which go into the four above mentioned directions, which will be the four basic criteria to assign the award. The focus of the award is on best practices concerning public actions, measures and policies, which have been implemented or which are under implementation and which produced outstanding results and achievements with reference to the four above mentioned criteria.
The award is promoted by Regione Emilia-Romagna in cooperation with the Institute for Transport and Logistics and POLIS and it is sponsored and supported by the SUGAR EU Project, funded under the Interreg IVC European Territorial Cooperation Programme (www.interreg4c.eu).
