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Regional Logistics 4/2017

Quarterly Journal of Open ENLoCC

European Review

of Regional Logistics

Also in this issue:

Hellenic Institute of Transport: Transforming supply chain innovation into results.

Dynamic management of loading bays for urban last mile deliveries.

Projects. Conferences. News.

Suggested reading. Next dates.

4/2017 (October)

ISSN 2509-226X

Intermodal topics in this issue:

ZAILOG: Knowledge for Intermodal Transport.

Interporto Verona Quadrante.

Rail freight corridor interrupted at Rastatt.

Classic text, by William Thackeray.

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In this issue

Editorial 3 by Carl-Magnus Carlsson, co-editor.

News from partners and logistics 4 ITL Training in Logistics and Transport. ITL to launch further projects. Compartmentalized trucks cut the cost of grocery distribution. Tunnel construction accident interrupts vital rail freight corridor. New Zealand air transport partially cut off. 10 years of MOBI to be celebrated at annual conference. BREXIT, EU cooperation projects, and British partners. Project “Vital Nodes” approved. Call open: SULPiTER training programme. People.

Knowledge for Intermodal Transport 8 Open ENLoCC member Consorzio ZAILOG and Verona Quadrante Freight Village.

Transforming supply chain innovation into results 10 Open ENLoCC member Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) is one of the five institutes of the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), a leading research institute.

Dynamic management of loading bays for urban last mile deliveries 12 Introduction to the field of loading bays, idea of an innovative (smartphone-based) information system for dynamic management, followed by modelling results of a real case study.

E-Consumers and their perception of automated parcel stations 14

Can the crowd deliver? 14

Open ENLoCC – the network and its members 15

“Reading Company” 16 A truly integrated transport system for sustainable and efficient logistics. The complexity of planning for goods delivery in a shared urban space. City logistics and pooling solutions. Guide for identifying, classifying, evaluating, and mitigating truck freight bottlenecks. Trends and potentials of city logistics concepts in the age of e-commerce from a sustainability perspective.

Classic text – William Makepeace Thackeray: “Am Rhein” – intermodal transport 18 The very beginnings of intermodal travel, seen with the eyes of a novelist.

Next dates 20

Get your copy of each Open ENLoCC publication 23 Past and present issues.

Cover photo (Martin Brandt): The boat that safely navigates Loreley rock means intermodal transport on the Rhine.

The “European Review of Regional Logistics”, quarterly journal of Open ENLoCC, is issued by KLOK Kooperationszentrum Logistik e.V. on behalf of Open ENLoCC, the European network of regional logistics competence centers. Editor: Martin Brandt. Open EN-LoCC co-editors: Carl-Magnus Carlsson, Giuseppe Luppino. ISSN 2509-226X

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Dear members and friends of Open ENLoCC,

This issue of the European Review of Regional Logistics is just as filled with interesting and informative as well as stimulating reading as usual! Apart from the standing sections of News, Classic Text, Reading Company and Next days, we will learn more about Open ENLoCC members Zailog and HIT. Furthermore, there are several articles by members in this issue, some of them being contributions to the International Conference of City Logistics in Pukhet this June.

Among the News we find ITL presenting several programmes for Training in logistics and transport as well as upcoming projects. The question of transporting groceries in multi-compartment vehicles is also discussed, as well as the recent problems arising in the Tunnel construction work on the “Rhine-Alpine Corridor”. Also, the 10 year anniversary of MOBI is announced.

Consorzio ZAILOG in Verona presents its activities in planning logistics and freight transport infrastructure, intermodal transports and research and in improving the efficiency of the Verona Freight Village. Here also the premium ranked freight village Interporto Quadrante Europa is presented. For HIT, The Hellenic Institute of Transport, Logistics and Supply Chain Management are core research and innovation areas. The article presents the research activities and core competences together with the many projects in which HIT participates.

In an article by Stane Bozicnik and Tomislav Letnik from University of Maribor the issue of Dynamic management of loading bays for urban last mile deliveries is highlighted. A smart-phone-based information system for increased efficiency in utilization of bay loads is discussed as well as the results of a real case study. E-commerce is rapidly expanding, but what about the consumer’s perception of deliveries? Would automated parcel stations be a good solution? This is discussed in an article by Verlinde, Rojas, Buldeo Rai, Kin and Macharis. Buldeo Rai, Verlinde, Merckx and Macharis also introduce a study on Crowd Logistics.

In the Reading Company section, a number of article and report reviews are presented, among others the document “A Truly Integrated Transport System for Sustainable and Efficient Logistics” and articles on urban goods deliveries and City Logistics.

The Classic Text of this issue is from William Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair”. The excerpt is describing intermodal transport as of 1830: The London society goes to Cologne by carrying their carriages along on the boats.

And finally in this issue, there is the “Next Days”-section, covering logistics events well into January 2018!

We wish you all good reading!

Carl-Magnus Carlsson Co-editor Malmö University, Sweden

Carl-Magnus Carlsson is Director of Transport Management Studies and lecturer in Economics and Transport at the Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University in Southern Sweden. The Depart-ment has been partner in several EU-financed projects on sustain-able regional and urban transport and logistics, primarily in the Öresund Region.

Malmö University has been a member of Open ENLoCC since the start in 2006, and Carl-Magnus a member of the Steering Com-mittee between 2006 and 2017. Since June 2017 Carl-Magnus is co-editor of the European Review of Regional Logistics.

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News

ITL Training in Logistics and Transport: for the future of European and Global Economy and Society

Training is one of the pillars of the European’s strategies for the challenges of the future, while Logistics is one of the growing sectors of the economy thanks to its transversal value that makes it relevant in almost all the industrial sectors, as well as for services, society and environment. Despite that, logistics is also a quite recent topic for training and education, at all levels. It’s a consequence that more “work” must be done for this sector.

ITL, the Institute of Logistics and Transport, Open ENLoCC member in Bologna, has faced the abovementioned challenge, and with reference to “Lifelong Learning” and “Erasmus+” programs, in the last 10 years has developed many projects as leader or partner, dealing with different topics: from the creation of “Logistic-tube” video platform (DELPHI), to the application of the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET) principles for the key sectorial professional profiles (CENTRAL, LIST), the realization of a Meta-Framework for logistics (METALOG), a training path linking the 4th and 5th level of the “European Qualification Framework” (EQF) qualifications, i.e. vocational school level and the level above (PROMETEO), the preparation of references for mobility at 4th EQF level (ETL4ALL) and a specific training program for Urban Couriers (UBAC), including Educational and Competence Standards, as well as the learning material useful for the course deployment. All the outcomes are available and free of charge; please contact ITL or one of the project partners. / Jonathan Rossetti, ITL

ITL to launch further projects

Looking at the future, during the next autumn three new projects will be launched. SIMULTRA, that aims to realize simulators for key transport and logistics operations, to be used by students and trainees in order to enhance Work Based Learning and ease the entering of young people into the job market. In addition to ITL (project leader), among others the Freight Village of Parma (CePIM) will be partner, as well as the University of Antwerp, the French Association for the development of training in Transport (AFT) and the Innovation Center for Training of the Aragon Region (CFIP).

VETMO4TL (organized by French Lead Partner AFT), as follow up of the former ETL4ALL project, will prepare the necessary conditions, processes and documentation to allow mutual trust between schools and therefore starting mobility experiences for the “4th EQF level” (vocational school). Finally, the SLS project will set and test the first edition of the Summer School for Logistics in Portoroz (Slovenia), an initiative addressing the training needs of both the learners both the teacher of the 4th and 5th EQF level. Training Units with specific learning content not common in all the schools, high quality methodologies and tools will be developed for

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enhancing and enlarging users’ competencies, making SLS an excellence part of the national vocational education and training (VET) system.

New learning methodologies, innovative training tools, coherency of VET systems (ECVET, EQF, EQAVET), networking among VET actors and industries, Mobility of workers, students and teachers are the challenges for the training sector and for the future of our economy, society and environment, all these topics should see the commitment of all the stakeholders to ease their achievement.

More information: [email protected].

Compartmentalized trucks cut the cost of grocery distribution

Groceries need to be stored and transported at different temperatures depending on the nature of each product – so why not rationalize the distribution of these items by accommodating different temperature zones in the same truck?

This is the basic rationale of multi-compartment vehicle (MCV) distribution, which is gaining ground in Europe. But adding complexity to vehicles comes at a cost. The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) has analyzed this tradeoff to shed light on the cost-effectiveness of MCV distribution. The researchers built a mathematical decision model and solution approach for minimizing loading/unloading and transportation costs associated with the routing of MCVs, for different compartment configurations. See http://supplychainmit.com/2017/08/24/compartmentalized-trucks-cut-the-cost-of-grocery-distribution/

Tunnel construction accident interrupts vital rail freight corridor

Between the towns of Rastatt, south of Karlsruhe, and Baden-Baden, north of the link to Strasbourg, the main rail corridor is not only just two track, but also there is no electric line available for re-routing. Just in this bottleneck, perhaps the most serious in the European rail network, the tunnel construction meant for capacity improvement resulted in accidental collapse of the existing line’s base and caused the line’s closing from late August to early October.

Andrea Marongiu, Managing Director of the Baden-Württemberg logistics association in Southwest Germany, has done a calculation of the consequences: The specialized road operators that use intermodal transport along the Rhine corridor have additional costs for re-routing or truck renting of about one million Euros per day, or about 50 millions in total. This hits smaller companies and will burden them for years. “The amount is a rather conservative estimate”, Marongiu says. “It does not include the additional costs for the rail operators and neither the costs of the industry that runs out of supply. It undercuts all our efforts to shift road transport to rail.” He expects Deutsche Bahn to come up with a compensation plan.

European rail freight corridor “Rhine-Alpine” cut by mole-station at tunnel construction accident. © fotosearch


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New Zealand air transport partially cut off

In an accident somewhat similar to the German rail interruption at Rastatt (see previous page), construction work has disrupted the flow of kerosene to Auckland airport in New Zealand for a week or so. As a result, fueling of air planes is much limited. Given the distance of New Zealand to other potential fueling places, this is crucial to connections between New Zealand and the rest of the world.

While New Zealanders will be able to handle this temporary disruption, it raises the question how redundant our transport systems and logistics chains are: The chains are global, but the bottlenecks are local, and they are hidden. Logistics planners cannot know all potential bottlenecks or the existence of fallback levels, and local planners cannot know the importance of all the logistics chains that pass through. Time for local redundancy standards? /MB

10 years of MOBI to be celebrated at annual conference

Our mobility system is changing drastically. Thanks to innovative technologies new concepts, that change our mobility behaviour are put in place. Imagine 20 years from now! Will we all be driving with connected, electric and shared vehicles? Will our goods be delivered by cargo bikes?

Open ENLoCC member MOBI of Brussels Free University invited people from Uber, Google, UITP and the founder of Mobility-as-a-Service, to come and share their vision on the future of mobility! MOBI will also share the latest results of their research. Registration is via the event page. Don't forget to sign up soon, places are limited!

On the 26th of October MOBI will also celebrate its 10th anniversary! MOBI staff looks forward to meeting you at Le Bouche à l’Oreille (Félix Hapstraat 11, 1040 Brussels), the perfect setting for this special occasion!

BREXIT, EU cooperation projects, and British partners

How will Britain’s leaving the European Union affect projects with British partners that are co-financed by the EU? The UK government has guaranteed that it will meet all funding for all EU funded research projects until completion, irrespective of the final terms of Brexit.

So the question of the UK and EU research up to 2019 has been asked and answered. No UK partner will ‘crash’ out of a project, but it may be that the money will come directly from UK treasury, much in the same way that the Swiss funded H2020 until they were able to rejoin as an associated country to the Framework Programme. Since many countries such as Turkey and Israel are members of the Framework Programmes, contribute money and receive funding, it is likely that the route is there for the UK to join future FP research on that basis. So the situation is stable for all current projects but not yet clear for future framework programmes.

“Intelligent solutions needed for city logistics.“ Photo: Giuseppe Luppino

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Project “Vital Nodes” approved

“VITALNODES – Building a lasting expert network that delivers evidence-based recommendations for Vital Urban Nodes along TEN-T Corridors” submitted under the Horizon 2020 programme under the lead of Rijkswaterstaat (NL) has been chosen for funding and the preparation of the Grant Agreement has started.

VitalNodes will build a lasting European network of key stakeholders based on existing European, national and regional networks. This is done by enriching and applying a proven approach for the optimisation of economic, social and environmental vitality of urban areas from the perspective of multimodal transport infrastructure and spatial development (‘Networking for Urban Vitality’, NUVit). VitalNodes will deliver evidence-based recommendations for more (cost) efficient and sustainable integration of all 88 urban nodes in the TEN-T network corridors, addressing specifically the multi- and intermodal connection between long-distance and last-mile freight logistics.

Call open: SULPiTER training programme

The SULPiTER “Enlarged Transfer Programme” (ETP) aims for a direct dialogue with at least 20 authorities mainly from the Central Europe Programme Area, competent for freight transport and logistics in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs), and involve them in a training programme to improve their understanding and skills in policy making for urban energy efficient freight in a mutual learning process.

Benefits are three training sessions between January 2018 and February 2019, two by webinar and one as a physical meeting, which will take place with the final project meeting in Bologna. Participants will benefit from the experience of the SULPiTER FUAs representatives having implemented their own Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans (“SULPs”) and from support of technical experts.

Special attention will be paid to matching the respective ETP cities’ key areas of interest with similar and relevant activities in the SULPiTER cities, so that the assistance offered can be even more targeted.

Ministries, Regions and Cities can apply. Research organizations are entitled if they prove an influence with one of the institutions categorized above by providing a Letter of Support (LoS) signed by the relevant institution. Deadline is October 15th.

Please apply at https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/sulpiteretpsurvey

People

Open ENLoCC member NewRail’s PhD student Dongjun Li was awarded a cash prize for her presentation: “A Rail Freight Industry Tool To Maximise Profit For Infrastructure Managers And Freight Service Operators: Pricing strategy design for the rail freight service network”.

NewRail said goodbye to its Marketing and Communications coordinator, Ann Zunder, in July. We all wish Ann a long and happy retirement.

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/sulpiteretpsurvey

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Knowledge for Intermodal Transport Open ENLoCC member Consorzio ZAILOG was born in 2016 by the initia-tive of “Consorzio ZAI” and Quadrante Servizi” in order to build and stim-ulate Research and Development of innovative technologies and new business models in the fields of transport and logistics. These innova-tions will be then transferred to the companies located in the area of the Interporto Quadrante Europa of Verona.

The shareholders

The “Consorzio ZAI”, Consortium for the Agricultural and Industrial area of Verona, is a public body set up in 1948 by Verona Council, Province and Chamber of Commerce, which has supported local economic devel-opment for over sixty years. Consorzio ZAI is the owner and the manag-er/administrator of the Interporto Quadrante Europa area.

Quadrante Servizi was founded in October 1988 by the will of the Con-sorzio ZAI and other transport operators present in the area of the Inter-porto Quadrante Europa. It was created with the mission of providing for the administration of freight village facilities, in addition to the provision to public and private operators in a series of services as terminal man-agement, shunting and ICT services.

The Mission of ZAILOG and how it operates

ZAILOG has some distinct but integrated functions among its core activi-ties: supporting its shareholders in planning logistics and freight transport infrastructure; developing new intermodal transport services, researching for innovative technological and organizational solutions to promote modal shift and sustainable freight transport; promoting the territory, through marketing and promotional activities at international, national and local level. ZAILOG mission is developed through National and Global Networking with particular reference to the European Union (Ten-T Corridors Network), relationships with infrastructure managers and international logistics chain operators; Strategic Marketing for Quad-rante Europe by proposing Verona system at international level; Re-search and Development with particular reference to innovative solu-tions for transport and terminal management.

Consorzio ZAILOG, in close contact with Consorzio ZAI, will concentrate on improving the efficiency and sustainability of Verona Freight Village node, on the ScanMed and Mediterranean corridors. This will be achieved through the analysis of the actual terminal management organ-ization together with the feasibility study about the enlargement of actu-al terminal catchment area.

Interporto Quadrante Europa Verona

The Interporto Quadrante Europa, located at the intersection of the north-south (Brenner) and east-west motorways and at the correspond-ing railways, occupies an area of 2.500.000 m² with a potential further expansion up to 4.200.000. The Consorzio Zai owns and manages this in-frastructure with a detailed plan approved by the Veneto Region. It is an ideal hub for freight transported by road and rail, nationally and inter-nationally. In particular, international freight coming from or going to

Contact

Alberto Milotti Consorzio ZAILOG Via Sommacampagna, 61 37137 Verona / Italy

+39.045.80.82.186 [email protected]

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northern central Europe through the Brenner Corridor and from/to the eastern European Countries. The terminal area occupies about 310.000 m² of a total area of 800.000 square meters dedicated to railroad ser-vices. Combined transport is done in 3 terminals:

Terminali Italia Terminal, 160.000 m² area, it has 10 tracks 650 meters long, 4 large gantry cranes and it is open 24 hours per day without inter-ruption (except from 6:00am-12:00pm on Sunday). In 2016, the terminal arrivals and departures included:

a) 166 pairs of trains per week connecting Verona to the most im-portant industrial areas of Germany, Benelux, Denmark, Sweden, etc. through the Brenner Corridor;

b) 19 pairs of trains per week to Italian ports and inland Terminals;

c) 3 pairs of trains per week for the Eastern Europe.

The Terminal handles 190.000 railroad intermodal wagons per year with particular emphasis on semitrailers (approximately 80%) but also with a reasonable quantity of swap bodies (15%) and full-size containers (5%).

The “Compact Terminal”, built by Quadrante Europa Terminal Gate (founded and shared 50% by Consorzio ZAI and RFI), an area of 55.000 m², has five tracks each 600m, four lanes for trucks and a storage area of 9.300 m², with 3 fully rotating cranes.

Compact Terminal has doubled the intermodal capacity of the Interporto by using approximately 40% of the area dedicated to the rail/road trans-fer, rationalizing the railway activities and optimizing the handling through the physical separation between the storage and production ar-eas.

Interterminal, an area of 50.000 m², has 3 tracks, each 550m long and 3 reach stackers. It handles approximately 17 pairs train per week. Quad-rante Servizi is the manager of the area.

In 2016 more than 16.200 trains has been worked and more than 400.000 ITU shifted from road to rail. About 8 million tons of goods by rail and 20 million tons by road are shifted at the Interporto every year. In order to fully exploit its strategic location, especially considering the opening of the Brenner Base Tunnel foreseen in 2026, Consorzio ZAI-Quadrante Europa intends to build a new freight terminal, allowing the handling of 750m-long trains

The Interporto Quadrante Europa twice was ranked first among the freight villages in Europe by German Terminal Association GVZ-DGG, in 2010 and 2015. The ranking included more than 40 parameters and among them rail traffic, number of companies located, efficiency factors and training activities.

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Transforming supply chain innovation into results Open ENLoCC member Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) is one of the five institutes of the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH). CERTH is a leading research institute, included among the top-20 re-search organisations in terms of EU funding (no.18 in 2016, 3 positions up from the previous year).

HIT was established in 2000 and has currently a scientific team of approx-imately 80 members. The Institute has successfully participated in more than 220 projects and is currently participating in 18 Horizon 2020 & 10 European Transport Corridor projects.

Logistics & supply chain management is one of the core research and in-novation areas of HIT, aiming at transforming supply chain innovation into results, for the benefit of the private/public stakeholders involved, the wider region and the society as a whole.

HIT’s activities in the logistics domain can be summarised under three headings:

1. Applied research, in: • logistics sustainability enhancement, • supply chain optimization, • impact assessment of new technology- & policy-facilitated logis-

tics solutions, • collaborative logistics cost/gain/risk sharing, • innovative logistics business models & practices identification &

transfer, • group decision methodologies, • targeted sectors and industries.

2. Tools & technologies’ development in the form of: • technology-facilitated pilot applications, • logistics performance dashboards, • multi-stakeholder governance platforms, • intermodal planning & monitoring platforms.

3. Policy & industry interface and contribution, by: • maintaining strong links to regional public & private actors

(common projects, MoUs), • actively contributing to relevant fora & organising thematic

workshops & round tables, • developing policy briefs & position papers, • promoting logistics clustering.

Being able to deliver on the above activities though, requires a clear view of the competencies to be developed and continuous effort in further nurturing them. CERTH/HIT has invested, and continues to do so, in three core competencies:

1. Logistics solutions’ balance, i.e. building synergies by integrating innovative processes, tools and technologies and further augment-ing and sustaining their impact through appropriate policy pro-posals.

Contact

Aristos Halatsis Senior Project Manager CERTH/HIT +302310498463 [email protected] 6th Km Charilaou-Thermi Rd., 57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece www.hit.certh.gr


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2. Multi-faceted logistics team experience, i.e. building project-based teams that combine research, consulting, project management and industry hands-on experience, to ensure the applicability of re-search and innovation results in a real-life environment.

3. Collaborative approach towards our region, i.e. engaging regional actors for scanning weak signals of emerging needs and for validat-ing solutions applicability, contributing in developing the region as an intelligent testbed, and keeping ‘value creation & capture’ as yardstick for addressing the needs of all regional actors.

These three competencies are being employed, and at the same time re-inforced through the projects that HIT undertakes. For example, in the NOVELOG project (coordinated by HIT) a set of tools are being employed in balance with real-life city cases’ implementations, to provide city stakeholders with a group-decision-based better understanding of their urban logistics environment, to link experiences from previous urban lo-gistics initiatives to the characteristics of cities’ interested in applying them, and to develop commercially viable (enterprise level) and socio-economically beneficial (city/regional level) business models for the in-troduction & sustainable operation of urban logistics solutions.

In another ongoing project, AEOLIX, HIT is employing its collaborative re-gional approach in leading a Living Lab on Logistics Information Exchange & Collaboration, bringing together regional users and providers of logis-tics services to cooperate on establishing a Virtual Freight Centre and bundling export-focused logistics flows. To achieve this, synergies among new processes, ICT tools & technologies, and logistics corridor analytics, are employed. Innovation is a core pillar in most of the logistics projects in which HIT is involved. This importance led also HIT to focus on re-searching the main barriers that prohibit the market uptake of innovative logistics & supply chain business models, as part of the LOGINN project.

Finally, as all initiatives require an evidence-based basis for assessing the current state and the benefits of piloted improvement actions, but also for identifying emerging changes, HIT has been quite active in the devel-opment of KPI structures (FutureMed, OptiMed projects) and their oper-ationalisation through e-dashboards in a wide spectrum of logistics envi-ronments (uni-, multi-modal), focus areas (efficiency, sustainability), and implementation level (urban, regional, international.

The Hellenic Institute of Transport firmly believes in the impact that lo-gistics can have on a region’s real economy and sustainability (economic, environmental, social), and considers knowledge sharing, debate, recon-struction & migration as a major tool in realising this. Therefore, the de-cision to join the ‘European Network of Logistics Competence Centers’ came quite naturally, as Open ENLoCC can serve as an effective platform for sharing ideas and experiences and building competence synergies.

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Dynamic management of loading bays for urban last mile deliveries The article aims to make a short introduction to the field of loading bays which are nowadays becoming crucial for efficient urban last mile deliveries. The idea of an innovative (smartphone-based) information system for dynamic management of loading bays is shortly presented, followed by modelling results of a real case study, showing potential savings if the proposed information system would be implemented.

Introduction to loading bay problem and solutions

Requirements for just-in-time deliveries and the trend towards e-commerce, results in high fragmentation of urban freight demand and supply. Cities are facing a problem of higher number of urban freight transport trips and a lower level of freight vehicle utilisation. Perception of city authorities towards urban freight vehicles is mostly negative and this results with many restrictive measures which prevents door to door delivery. Restrictions are mainly related to the size and characteristics (eco norm, noise level) of the freight vehicles. Access is mainly prohibited for city centres and for a specific period of the day.

Freight vehicles are facing new and dynamically changing conditions, re-lated to accessibility to customers located in city centres. One of the most feasible way for efficient execution of last mile delivery is the intro-duction of loading bays, where freight vehicles can be parked (in vicinity of customers) and packages can be delivered to the final customer, on foot or by trolley. Number of loading bays is often not adequate for the required demand; therefore, delivery vehicles are forced to double park-ing (in the European cities we note 70 to 80% of double-parked deliver-ies) or obliged to circulating around the city to find a free loading bay. This is time-consuming and contributes significantly to the reduction of available road capacity and urban traffic congestion.

To solve these problems, different loading bay management solutions have been recently tested in European cities. Lyon was involved in an ex-periment called “loading bay of the future” that allowed operators to re-serve the space 24 hours in advance. Vienna experimented with the pro-ject “i-Ladezone” aiming to address intelligent monitoring of loading bays in an urban environment. Lisbon tested two technological based schemes; adopting parking meters for loading/unloading operations and loop vehicle detection sensors installed on the ground of loading bays. In all the above-mentioned projects, considerable savings in travel time, congestion and pollution have been reported. In addition to that, they all noted the need for further research and testing towards dynamic loading bay management, reservation and control.

Innovative solution and model for dynamic management of loading bays

The proposed information system is built on assumption that each driver, delivering to or from the city centre, possesses a smart mobile device. This device represents the main communication tool for providing deliv-ery request and receiving a delivery plan. Information system is com-

Tomislav Letnik Stane Bozicnik University of Maribor, Slovenia [email protected] http://www.fg.uni-mb.si/tec/


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posed of two major parts: database required for the operation of the sys-tem (upper part of the figure) and modules providing system services (lower part of the figure). Architecture of the proposed information sys-tem is presented on the Figure 1.

The comprehen-sive database con-tains detailed data on city road net-work (links, junc-tions, loading bays and traffic charac-teristics), urban area restrictions (time windows, pedestrian zones, vehicle size and emission limita-

tions, etc.), and the exact location of customers (including other charac-teristics, e.g. opening hours etc.). The database is constantly updated to provide data required for calculation of delivery plan upon request.

Clustering, routing and reservation modules are implemented to provide system services. Clustering module provides a list of loading bays feasible for particular set of customers in different periods of the day. Reserva-tion module assigns dynamically (upon request) particular delivery to the most appropriate loading bay (selected from the list of feasible loading bays). In case all feasible loading bays are occupied, vehicle has to wait outside the city until one of them become available again. Routing mod-ule calculates the most optimal route considering dynamically changing traffic conditions in the city centre. Once the process is finished the driv-er receives a delivery plan containing exact information for routing and loading bay reservation.

The model and the case study

To test the potential influence of the system a mathematical model has been developed. It is based on a fuzzy clustering algorithm to provide a list of feasible loading bays, routing procedure to dynamically select the best possible path and microstimulator that simulated dynamically changing demand and traffic conditions and reserves the best possible loading bay.

The model has been applied to a real case of a historical city center of Lucca in Italy. Several time scenarios (early morning, late morning and af-ternoon) with different demand, different traffic conditions, a different number of loading bays have been simulated. The results indicate some considerable average savings of vehicle travel times for up to 50% and up to 42% of travelled distances within the city centre.

Conclusions

Proposed concept should be considered as a tool for city authorities which is freely available for all users of urban freight system and can be successful only if it is a part of city logistics policy and if it is accompanied with adequate enforcement system.

Figure 1: Architecture of the proposed city delivery man-agement sys-tem

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E-Consumers and their perception of automated parcel stations Home deliveries are the preferred delivery option of online consumers but they are not sustainable in the long term. They are very expensive and increase freight traffic while not necessarily decreasing shopping travel. Deliveries to a locker in an automated parcel station (APS) could be a more sustainable alternative but the solution is not very popular. Only 12% of online consumers had at least one delivery via such a locker in 2015. This paper assesses how urban citizens perceive this solution and what they like and dislike about it. We carried out an online questionnaire among 61 people living in the city-center of the Belgian city Ghent where the Belgian company responsible for the delivery of national and international mail operates eight APSs (bpack); five of them are located in or close to the city-center. Most of the survey participants (93.44%) had never used a bpack and half of the participants (50.88%) did not know the solution prior to the survey. They were shown an introductory video to the solution. Nearly 85% states afterwards that the solution appeals to them (84.21%). What they appreciate the most is that you can pick-up your parcel 24/7. The fact that you can also use an APS to send or return goods does not impress them. Our survey showed that enough attention should be paid to (the perception of) reliability and security: only half of the participants consider the solution to be reliable (52.63%) and secure (52.63%) and nearly 55% (54.39%) perceive it as a solution that still involves some risks.

Our findings on delivery preferences of online consumers is in line with findings of existing research: home deliveries are the default choice for more than half of the online consumers (51.85%). About 13% usually chooses another location as delivery address (e.g. collection point, supermarket, postal office, parcel station, etc.).

Can the crowd deliver? Analysis of crowd logistics’ types and stakeholder support Today’s consumer has high expectations concerning retailers’ delivery services. Meanwhile, the impact of urban freight transport on cities intensifies. The concept of crowd logistics entails to optimise transport flows by sharing available vehicle capacities for freight. Therefore, it can contribute positively to both challenges. While there are endorsing examples, developments in both practice and research urge to question this claim. Our research aims to investigate which types of crowd logistics activities currently exist and if these types are supported by the stakeholders involved. Therefore, we systematically review existing literature and execute a multi-actor multi-criteria analysis. Our findings indicate that stakeholders’ perceptions diverge significantly, which should be taken into account by practitioners and policy-makers.

Both articles on this page are ab-stracts of longer presentations by scientists of Open ENLoCC member MOBI, to be published in the con-ference proceedings of the Interna-tional Conference of City Logistics in Phuket this June. The “Review” will inform its readers upon availa-bility of the publication.

Authors: Sara Verlinde, César Rojas,

Heleen Buldeo Rai, Bram Kin, Cathy Macharis.

Authors: Heleen Buldeo Rai, Sara

Verlinde, Jan Merckx, Cathy Macharis.

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Open ENLoCC – the network Open ENLoCC (European Network of Logistics Competence Centers) is an open network of regional competence centers in the field of logistics, run by public authorities or similar bodies. It was established as a follow up of the “ENLoCC”-project (from 2004 to 2007), then co-financed by the EU under the Interreg IIIC programme. It is self-supporting since.

The main task of the network is international exchange of experience and knowledge between its participants, and promotion of a higher level of cooperation among European institutions.

Its members work together on common projects with the aim to develop the regional economy by solving infrastructural, organisational and technological problems of logistics and transport. Dissemination of results from network activities and of the best practices takes place on a wide scale.

As per June 2017, the European network of regional logistics competence centers Open ENLoCC has the following members:

CMS, Centre for Maritime Studies of Brahea Centre at the University of Turku (FI).

CRITT Transport et Logistique, Le Havre (F).

CTL, Centre for Transport and Logistics of the University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma (I).

Amt der Kärntner Landesregierung, Klagenfurt (A), for former member Entwicklungsagentur Kärnten, EAK.

HIT Hellenic Institute of Transport, Thessaloniki (GR). NEW

ILiM, Institute of Logistics and Warehousing, Poznan (PL).

ITL, Institute for Transport and Logistics Foundation, Bologna (I).

KINNO, Kouvola Innovation Oy, Kouvola (FI).

KLOK Kooperationszentrum Logistik e.V., Kornwestheim / Stuttgart (D).

LCS, Logistik-Cluster Schwaben (LCS) e.V., Augsburg (D).

Logistics in Wallonia, Liege (B).

Mah, Malmö University, Department of Urban Studies/Transport Management, Malmö (S).

MOBI, Vrije Universiteit Brussel – MOBI (Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Group) Brussels (B).

MoWiN.net e.V., Kassel (D).

NewRail, Newcastle University (GB).

UM, University of Maribor, Faculty of Civil Engineering – Transport Economics Centre, Maribor (SLO).

WRS, Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH, Stuttgart (D).

Consorzio ZAILOG, Verona (I). NEW

Contact persons:

Giuseppe Luppino, President of Open ENLoCC and Project Manager at the Institute for Transport and Logistics – ITL.

Martin Brandt, Secretary of Open ENLoCC and Project Manager at the logistics cooperation center KLOK in Stuttgart Region.

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Reading Company

A truly integrated transport system for sustainable and efficient logistics

A truly integrated transport system for sustainable and efficient logistics. Document developed by the European Technology Platforms ACARE, ALICE, ERTRAC, ERRAC and WATERBORNE in the frame of H2020 project SETRIS. 28 pages.

This document provides a holistic overview of a truly integrated transport system as the vision to reach significant advance in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of freight transport and logistics, creating value and adding competitiveness to all manufacturing and retail sectors in Europe. It states what is meant by “integration” by naming the different aspects. Furthermore, it gives an overview of the different stakeholder groups in logistics and all modes of transports, regarding the incentives and disincentives related to integration along the transport and logistics chain.

The document is targeting transport, logistics and industry stakeholders, the European Commission and Member States as main stakeholders to develop recommendations in the document into action. The document has been prepared in the frame of SETRIS project and the contents have been reviewed and approved by the five Transport European Technology Platforms hence reaching ample consensus among a broad stakeholders representation.

The complexity of planning for goods delivery in a shared urban space: a case study involving cyclists and trucks

Pitera K, Pokorny P, Kristensen T, Bjørgen A, in: Eur. Transp. Res. Rev. (2017) 9:46. DOI 10.1007/s12544-017-0239-7

The authors looked at loading bays outside a store in Trondheim, where loading resp. unloading conflicts with rather intense bicycle traffic. Their analysis of the situation includes video recordings of the loading/unloading maneuvers as well as of the maneuvering of the trucks in and out of the loading bays, crossing the bicycle lanes. They also looked at the planning process that lead to the conflicting design. The situation itself may be rather typical for many urban streets across Europe.

Two key sentences from “results” and “conclusions” of the study are: “The mapping of the planning process indicated that there were few to no discussions of freight deliveries during the planning, design and construction of the building; neither were there any for the streetscape projects taking place within the same time frame. [ … ] The absence of a dedicated freight policy and/or personnel at the governing authority, as well as lack of coordination amongst different plans (construction, street, thematic), are likely to lead to continued problematic and potentially dangerous environments such as that in the case study.”

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City logistics and pooling solutions: obvious, environmental friendly, good acceptability, winner – winner strategies: Why think more about it?

Guihéry, L: City logistics and pooling solutions: obvious, environmental friendly, good acceptability, winner – winner strategies: Why think more about it? In: Stationär und online – Handel in der Stadt, November 2016.

Pooling solutions, among them those suggested for urban last mile delivery, always have a trade-off, Guihery argues: On one hand, there is the benefit (be it environmental or economic), on the other hand there is the additional organizational complexity. Furthermore, enforced pooling solutions limit the freedom of movement, which in an open society needs a good cause even in the case of goods movement. In the long run, technological development and changes in customer behaviour may counter the original positive effects and leave the pooled transport with the disadvantages of monopoly structure and legacy technology.

Guide for identifying, classifying, evaluating, and mitigating truck freight bottlenecks

Ahanotu D, Margiotta R, Eisele B, Hallenbeck M, Goodchild A, McCormack E: Guide for Identifying, Classifying, Evaluating, and Mitigating Truck Freight Bottlenecks. Pre-publication draft of NCHRP Research Report 854. Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. (2017).

Identification of road freight transport bottlenecks is not quite as easy as the identification of overall bottlenecks in the road network. However, for transport logistics these bottlenecks can be crucial, and they should therefore be identified by road planners and transportation planners. Not all bottlenecks are caused by traffic volume – grades, lack of turn area, narrow shoulders and more can also limit freight traffic.

The book provides the planner with in-depth methodologies and examples from US road planning. The different methodologies are discussed, including their data needs.

Trends and potentials of city logistics concepts in the age of e-commerce from a sustainability perspective

Hausladen I, Dachsel B, Haas A: Trends and Potentials of City Logistics Concepts in the Age of E-Commerce from a Sustainability Perspective, HHL Working Paper, Leipzig Graduate School of Management No. 147, July 2015.

The authors list a large number of technical and organisational aspects of city logistics concepts. All of them are assessed against environmental criteria (resource use, greenhouse gas emissions, other emissions), economic criteria (long term orientation, investment costs, operating costs), and social criteria (quality of life, impact on city structure, data security). The results can be a benchmark for own evaluations of city logistics solutions.

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Classic text – William Makepeace Thackeray: “Am Rhein” – intermodal transport This slightly shortened excerpt from chapter LXII shows the protagonists in the year 1830 or so, on their way to vacation in Germany, using the new intermodal steamboat services. We learn that transport is not simply a technical issue. The way it is organized and used does mirror the society, here especially the upper and mobile classes. We get a satirical view of the very beginnings of today’s mass mobility and organized transport.

One fine morning, Parliament being over, the summer advanced, and all the good company in London about to quit that city for their annual tour in search of pleasure or health, the Batavier steamboat left the Tower-stairs laden with a goodly company of English fugitives. The quarter-deck awnings were up, and the benches and gangways crowded with scores of rosy children, bustling nursemaids, ladies in the prettiest pink bonnets and summer dresses, gentlemen in travelling caps and linen jackets, whose mustachios had just begun to sprout for the ensuing tour; and stout trim old veterans with starched neckcloths and neat-brushed hats, such as have invaded Europe any time since the conclusion of the war, and carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hat-boxes, and Bramah desks, and dressing-cases was prodigious. There were jaunty young Cambridge men travelling with their tutor, and going for a reading excursion to Nonnenwerth or Königswinter: there were Irish gentlemen, with the most dashing whiskers and jewellery, talking about horses incessantly, and prodigiously polite to the young ladies on board, whom, on the contrary, the Cambridge lads and their pale-faced tutor avoided with maiden coyness: there were old Pall Mall loungers bound for Ems and Wiesbaden, and a course of waters to clear off the dinners of the season, and a little roulette and trente-et-quarante to keep the excitement going: there was old Metusaleh, who had married his young wife, with Captain Papillon of the Guards holding her parasol and guidebooks: there was young May who was carrying off his bride on a pleasure tour (Mrs. Winter that was, and who had been at school with May’s grandmother); there was Sir John and my lady with a dozen children, and corresponding nursemaids; and the great grandee Bareacres family that sate by themselves near the wheel, stared at everybody, and spoke to no one. Their carriages, emblazoned with coronets, and heaped with shining imperials, were on the foredeck; locked in with a dozen more such vehicles: it was difficult to pass in and out among them: and the poor inmates of the fore-cabin had scarcely any space for locomotion.

There was Sir John’s great carriage that would hold thirteen people; my Lord Methuselah’s carriage, my Lord Bareacres’ chariot, britska, and fourgon, that anybody might pay for who liked. It was a wonder how my Lord got the ready money to pay for the expenses of the journey. Finally, there was a very neat, handsome travelling carriage, about which the gentleman speculated.

“C’est à Kirsch je bense – je l’ai vu toute à l’heure – qui brenoit des sangviches dans la voiture,“ said the courier in a fine German French.

Kirsch emerging presently from the neighbourhood of the hold, where he had been bellowing instructions intermingled with polyglott oaths to the

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 –1863) was an English nov-elist known for his satirical works. In his satirical novel “Vanity Fair” (first published 1847/1848 and continuously in print since), William Thackeray portraits the bourgeois English society during the first half of the 19th century, while his witty observations reach far beyond. The subtitle “A novel without a hero” apparently both refers to its multitude of actors and to the two heroines Amelia and Rebecca.

For another central chapter of the novel, see “Review” 2-2017, or get yourself the book!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satirical

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ship’s men engaged in secreting the passengers’ luggage, came to give an account of himself to his brother interpreters. He informed them that the carriage belonged to a Nabob from Calcutta and Jamaica, enormously rich, and with whom he was engaged to travel; and at this moment a young gentleman who had been warned off the bridge between the paddle-boxes, and who had dropped thence on the roof of Lord Methuselah’s carriage, from which he had made his way over other carriages and imperials until he had clambered on to his own, descended thence and through the window into the body of the carriage to the applause of the couriers looking on.

“Nous allons avoir une belle traversée, Monsieur George,” said the courier with a grin, as he lifted his gold-laced cap.

“D– your French,” said the young gentleman, “where’s the biscuits, eh?” Whereupon Kirsch answered him in the English language or in such an imitation of it as he could command, – for though he was familiar with all languages, Mr. Kirsch was not acquainted with a single one, and spoke all with indifferent volubility and incorrectness.

Jos was seated at the moment on deck under the awning, and pretty nearly opposite to the Earl of Bareacres and his family, whose proceedings absorbed the Bengalee almost entirely.

“Those people seem to interest you a good deal,” said Dobbin, laughing and watching him. Amelia too laughed. She was in a straw bonnet with black ribbons, and otherwise dressed in mourning: but the little bustle and holiday of the journey pleased and excited her, and she looked particularly happy.

“What a heavenly day!” Emmy said, and added, with great originality, “I hope we shall have a calm passage.”

Jos waved his hand, scornfully glancing at the same time under his eyelids at the great folks opposite. “If you had made the voyages we have,” he said, “you wouldn’t much care about the weather.” But nevertheless, traveller as he was, he passed the night darefully sick in his carriage, where his courier tended him with brandy-and-water and every luxury.

In due time this happy party landed at the quays of Rotterdam, whence they were transported by another steamer to the city of Cologne. Here the carriage and the family took to the shore, and Jos was not a little gratified to see his arrival announced in the Cologne newspapers as ‘Herr Graf Lord von Sedley nebst Begleitung aus London.’

Steam boats to the continent From the early 1820’s onwards, already before the railways were built, scheduled steam boats operated on several routes across the English Channel as well as between London and the Continent. Almost simultane-ously, steam boat operation started on the Rhine to Cologne and from there, by different boats, to Mainz, resulting not only in an upswing of goods traffic, but also in a boom of inland tourism. The route London – Rotterdam was operated both by a British and a Dutch company, while the route to Cologne saw Dutch and German services.

Apparently the Dutch “Batavier” was such an iconic vessel of its time that Thackeray for realism decided against inventing some name. By placing the novel’s main characters on board of the Dutch boat instead of some English competitor, he intensifies the atmosphere of “going abroad”. A logistician may add that using Dutch services all the way to Cologne may have eased the transfer hassle in Rotterdam. /MB

Paddle steamer “Batavier” (1829 – 1855) was one of the first steam-boats in scheduled service. The story’s dozen carriages on the front deck appear like an ample load. Early steamers on the Rhine were (even) smaller.

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Next Dates

September 2017 Darmstadt (D), September 25-26 3

rd Interdisciplinary Conference on Production, Logis-

tics and Traffic (ICPLT) The 3

rd ICPLT is jointly hosted by TU Darmstadt and TU

Dortmund and will take place at TU Darmstadt in 2017. The objective of the 3

rd ICLPT is to identify trends, synergies and

challenges between these different disciplines in order to explore new and innovative solutions for complex scientific, technical and real-world problems. The conference aims for a better understanding of the manifold interdependencies between these research fields. Open ENLoCC member MOBI’s Bram Kin will present “Last mile transport of fragmented deliveries: delivery prefer-ences of nanostore owners.” The paper is co-authored by dr. Sara Verlinde and prof. dr. Cathy Macharis. Professor Macharis is also a member of the conference's scientific committee.

Frankfurt am Main (D), September 26-27 EXCHAiNGE – The Supply Chainers’ Conference Links new trends with the core functions of the supply chain - practically. Real exchange among real experts. With topics that challenge and continue. With leading representatives from companies and academia. On the agenda of EXCHANGE 2017: Supply Chain Practices, Resiliency, Culture and Digital Transformation, Sustainable Management, Open Innovation, Digital Sovereignty, Supply Chain Management Award 2017 and much more.

Dubai (UAE), September 26-28 Port Development MENA Conference Port developments and strategies for the MENA region (“Middle East and North Africa”, i.e. extending from Moroc-co to Iran).

Brussels (B), September 27 Collaborative Innovation Days: Logistics cloud Final Conference ALICE, the European Technology Platform on logistics, in-vites to 3 workshops: Carbon footprint reduction in Freight Transport and Logistics (Alan McKinnon, KLU Kühne-Logistics University); Digitalization, data sharing and trust enabling efficient and sustainable freight transport and logistics (Rod Franklin, KLU & ALICE); City Logistics (Paola Cossu, FIT Con-sulting). Open ENLoCC is represented by Giuseppe Luppino, panelist of the City Logistics session.

Rotterdam (NL), September 27-29 → 3

rd Annual Port Infrastructure Development Summit

The largest event dedicated to port infrastructure develop-ment. Increasing vessel size, ageing infrastructure, commer-cial demands and climate change are all factors that are influencing the ways global ports are evolving in the present day: Results of a survey of those working in and around Ports from across the world.

Torres Vedras (P), September 27-29 15

th CIVITAS FORUM conference

The annual event brings together the CIVITAS community from across Europe: hundreds of mobility experts, actors and stakeholders, devoted to the development of sustaina-ble urban mobility in their cities. The conference will contin-ue the tradition of offering state-of-the-art presentations, interactive workshops and sessions, interesting site visits, not to mention new innovative elements in the programme.

Vienna (A), September 28 2

nd eCommerce Logistik-Day

As last year, the processes of logistics in e-commerce and multi-channel marketing will be closely examined.

Kouvola (FIN), September 28 Railforum 2017 The RAILFORUM 2017 seminar brings together experts of railway logistics from all over the world. The day is about high-class speeches, fresh aspects, useful contacts and in-vestment possibilities in the field. It is focused on the themes: Railway hubs and corridors from Asia to Europe; Intermodal and smart logistics.

Belgrade (SRB), September 28-29 Danube Region Strategy High level meeting on EUSDR Priority area 1b: “To improve mobility and multimodality: rail, road and air transport.”

October 2017 Kuala Lumpur (MAL), October 2-5 The Freight Summit 10

th TFS Global Forwarders Meeting.

Paris (F), October 3 FERRMED conference FERRMED is pleased to invite you on “La Liaison Ferroviaire Paris-Barcelona à L’Horizon 2025”.

Barcelona (E), October 4-6 European Transport Conference 2017 A forum for the coming together of research, policy and practice in transport, the Association for European Transport is committed to providing a meeting place for transport practitioners and researchers from all parts of the world, from new entrants to the profession to established senior figures. Speakers draw out the policy implications of re-search. Equally, practitioners and policy makers are encour-aged to relate their presentations to the research behind the implementation of schemes and policies. Dr. Imre Keserü of Open ENLoCC member MOBI will present the research paper “Keeping busy while traveling: Evidence for travelbased multitasking from Belgium”, co-authored with prof. dr. Cathy Macharis, during Session 5.

Belgrade (SRB), October 4-6 XXI Triennial International conference on Material handling, constructions and logistics The main goal of the Conference is to make the scien-tific/research exchange between similar academic Depart-

Photo: Martin Brandt

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ments and Institutes from different countries, as well as individual researcher in the field, in order for possible pro-fessional cooperation or to apply for international programs or bilateral research and scientific projects offered by EU or other institutions.

Frankfurt am Main (D), October 4-6 4. Deutscher Mobilitätskongress German Mobility Congress, central forum for debate be-tween science, economy and politics, across all means of transport.

Stuttgart (D), October 9-11 International Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition – EVS30 The EVS30 symposium will be a place of sharing latest tech-nology advances and a forum to discuss how electromobility and new mobility technologies can contribute to the solu-tion of recent challenges. The exhibition shows all areas of electric power transmission, special vehicles from the con-struction sector, agriculture and logistics. At EVS30 manufac-turers and providers of charging infrastructure, energy man-agement systems, as well as software solutions for net-worked and autonomous driving will show their innovations. Open ENLoCC member MOBI’s Prof. dr. ir. Joeri Van Mierlo is acting as chairman of the Scientific Program Committee, Open ENLoCC member WRS of Stuttgart Region acts as co-organizer. See advertising on back cover!

Brussels (B), October 9-12 European Week of Regions and Cities 2017 Under the main headline of 'Regions and Cities working for a better future', the event will focus on three sub-themes: Building resilient regions and cities, regions and cities as change agents, and sharing knowledge to deliver results. In many topics, goods transport, warehousing and logistics can be an issue even if not explicitly named in the agenda.

Mechelen (B), October 10 NOVELOG Workshop ‘Sustainable & efficient logis-tics: what role for micro-consolidation?’ Within the scope of its participation in the NOVELOG pro-ject, the city of Mechelen is running a pilot testing smart locker system. Thus, the workshop will focus on the poten-tial and opportunities of micro-consolidation centres, and the role of smart lockers in efficient and sustainable logistics. [email protected]

Brussels (B), October 11 NOVELOG Cities Stories & Tools Business Models The NOVELOG project has developed four tools to support city logistics policy formulation and decision-making, which have been tested in 12 cities. The preliminary outcomes from selected city cases will be presented at this workshop. Interactive session to discuss the most suitable business models for the NOVELOG tools. [email protected]

Hamburg (D), October 12-13 Hamburg international conference of Logistics 2017 HICL’s mission is to facilitate the exchange of the ideas and contribute to the improved understanding and practice of Logistics and SCM by creating a creative environment which attracts researchers, practitioners, and industry thinkers from all around the world who are involved in studying and disseminating of logistics and SCM issues.

Shenzhen (PRC), October 12-14 12

th China International Logistics and Transportation

Fair As the leading logistics and Transport Expo in Asia, the CILF2016 received 1598 exhibitors from 51 countries and

regions, and 122,000 visits from 80 countries and regions, set a new record trade show attendance.

Antwerp (B), October 17-19 2017 Antwerp Transport & Logistics Transport & Logistics brings together suppliers and buyers of multimodal transport and logistics solutions as the platform for all professionals active in: transport, logistics, distribu-tion, warehouse & handling, data communication and soft-ware.

Long Beach (USA), October 17-20 7

th International Urban Freight Conference (I-NUF)

The International Urban Freight Conference 2017 will be the premier venue for multidisciplinary urban freight research. A global network of scholars will share research and the best practices with the research community, government, and the private sector. I-NUF 2017 is jointly organised by METRANS and the MetroFreight Center of Excellence on urban freight. Heleen Buldeo Rai and Bram Kin, Open EN-LoCC member MOBI’s research associates in City Logistics, are confirmed as speakers

Malmö (S), October 18-19 "Sustainable freight in the city - consolidation a solu-tion?" What can municipal goods consolidation learn from private and what can private goods consolidation learn from munic-ipal? Is there a Best Practice? Which are the success-factors? This year, the conference FEKIS, organized by the Swedish Business Administration Economists, will be held at Malmö University. Theme of the Conference is "Business Admin-istrations in Urban Development". More information is available at http://www.fekis2017.se/

Moscow (RUS), October 18–19 IASF 2017: Intelligent Transport Systems The International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies’ conference is much in technical details about autonomous vehicles, but also includes development of the regulatory framework of autonomous motion and socio-economic problems of the introduction of autonomous vehicles.

Rome (I), October 20 Innovative Solutions for Urban Freight Transport in the Era of the Circular Economy The CITYLAB (City Logistics in Living Laboratories) consorti-um (www.citylab-project.eu) and partners from Rome invite you to meet practitioners, local authority freight planners and technology providers interested in developing solutions to urban logistics challenges. You will learn about innovative urban logistics solutions being trialed including crowd-shipping, automated parcel lockers, off-hour delivery sys-tems, cargo bikes and reverse logistics applications.

Dubai (UAE), October 25-26 NATRANS 2017 Key Themes this year will include: Technology Disruptors and Future Transportation, Preparation for Autonomous Vehicles, Smart Transportation and Urban Mobility, Project Finance, Planning and Future Proofing, Road Safety in Public Engagement.

Berlin (D), October 25-27 34

th International Supply Chain Conference

One of Europe's leading events for logistics and supply chain management, in Germany known as “BVL-Kongress”. Since it was first staged in 1983, it has developed into a wide-ranging forum attracting more than 3,000 participants from all areas of logistics. "Think different − Act digital" is the theme for the 2017 International Supply Chain Conference.



http://www.fekis2017.se/

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Kiev (UA), October 25-27

Trans Ukraine The Trans Ukraine, organized by the ExpoNet Exhibition (Pvt) Ltd. will cover areas like domestic and international traffic, forwarding and logistics, ports and terminals (grain, potassi-um, container), elevator equipment, technology and weigh-ing equipment, means of mechanization of loading and unloading operations (cranes, loaders, stackers, trolleys, winches, industrial scales).

Brussels (B), October 26 MOBI annual seminar: “Back to the Future” Open ENLoCC member MOBI is celebrating its 10 years of existence! “On the 26

th of October we will celebrate this

birthday at our yearly MOBI seminar in which we want to look back to the future! The theme of the seminar is the Future of Urban Mobility with external keynotes by Sampo Hietanen (founder of Mobility-as-a-Service), MOBI presenta-tions and a panel debate about how the future will look like in terms of mobility, logistics and transport technology. In the evening we organise a reception with party. We hope you will join us!”

Montreal (CDN), October 29 – November 2 ITS World Congress 2017: Integrated Mobility Driving Smart Cities The ITS World Congress 2017, produced by ITS America in conjunction with ITS Canada and co-organized by ITS Europe and ITS Asia-Pacific, brings together global leaders in intelli-gent and transformative transportation to showcase and evaluate the latest innovative concepts, active prototypes, and live systems. Academics, researchers, policymakers, businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, implementers, and the media—thousands of people from the transport, automo-tive, telecommunications, and technology sectors—will engage in robust discussions and spirited debates as to how this rapidly changing and ever-expanding industry is address-ing the very real challenges facing our mobile, connected societies today and in the future.

Shanghai (PRC), October 31 – November 3 CeMAT ASIA 2017 As a leading international exhibition for material handling, automation, transport and logistics technologies in Asia, CeMAT ASIA adheres to CeMAT Hannover’s principal of Technology, Innovation & Service, establishing global pur-chasing network in the booming Chinese market. In a time of worldwide economic networking, CeMAT ASIA meets market demands and cares market communication to put up a best deal platform.

November 2017 Tehran (IR), November 5-6 1

st Iran International Logistics & Transportation

Forum Held by Iran Logistics and Transportation Federation and Iranian Inc., with full support & collaboration of Iran Ministry of Road & Urban Development, Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture and other relevant organi-zations. Forum Topics: Transportation Applications and Logistics Experiences, Trading Logistics and Transit, Logistics and different Industries, Transportation Economy, Transpor-tation & Logistics empowerment.

Brussels (B), November 8 FERRMED conference Key corridors, main terminals and train features in the “Silk Road” railway network - towards a high performance "pipe-line" Trans-Eurasian Railway Land Bridge.

Tallinn (EST), November 8-10 Digital Transport Days The European Commission, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) and the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union invite you with the objec-tive to explore the potential and to address challenges of digitalisation of transport and mobility both for passengers and freight. Among the speakers are Violeta Bulc, European Commissioner for Transport, and Kadri Simson, Estonian Minister of economic affairs and infrastructure.

Graz (A), November 9-10 Logistics-Business Expo 2017 Logistics fair in Austria, in parallel with “Logistikforum Graz” meeting on November 9.

Istanbul (TR), November 15-17 Logitrans International transport logistics exhibition.

Frankfurt am Main (D), November 20-22 Hypermotion The new fair for the transport systems of tomorrow. The first independent platform for the transport and mobility sector with digital transformation as the superordinate theme.

Amsterdam (NL), November 21-22 Urban Logistics Convention A redesign of urban logistics is necessary and urban logistic players need to be supported to keep up with the changes of the complex environment. Apart from challenges, players as well recognize opportunities for future city logistics. The Urban Logistics Convention 2017 will bring together interna-tional top-level experts.

Lyon (F), November 21-25 SOLUTRANS International fair for road transport and urban transport.

Rotterdam (NL), November 22-23 Light Electric Vehicle Summit LEVS, as the World Light Electric Vehicle Summit, aims at providing a premier & high quality global platform to foster exchange of views between R&D actors, industry, authori-ties, end-users and NGO's in the field. Strategies for light electric vehicles development will also be discussed & de-fined for further action.

Brussels (B), November 29-30 European-wide conference on results from road transport research in H2020 projects Joint with ERTRAC, EGVIA is organising the conference to showcase the results of selected H2020 funded projects on road transport related areas (Green Vehicles, Road, Mobility for Growth: Urban Mobility, Logistics, Intelligent Transport Systems ...). This conference will be a unique opportunity to get an overview of results from H2020 funded projects: selected ones will present results of EU-funded research.

London (GB), November 29-30 11

th Arctic Shipping Summit

The latest changes in regulations will be discussed in detail, as well as technological advancements and guidelines for insurance and the development of support infrastructure for safe and effective Arctic cargo transport. There will also be a particular focus on the promising sector of Arctic cruises.

Liège (B), November 30 L’Innovation Pitch Take part in the 7

th “Laboratoire D’Idees en Transport,

Logistique et Mobilité” of Open ENLoCC member Logistics in Wallonia.

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December 2017 Brussels (B), December 6-7 2017 Annual Polis Conference The 2017 conference "Innovation in transport for sustaina-ble cities and regions" includes regional freight issues from Manchester and Gothenburg, plus sustainability plans of La Poste and UPS.

January 2018 Washington, D.C. (USA), January 7-11 The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 97

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Meeting The information-packed program is expected to attract more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the

world. The meeting program will cover all transportation modes, with more than 800 sessions and workshops, ad-dressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of govern-ment, industry, and academic institutions. Spotlight theme: Transportation: Moving the Economy of the Future.

Mumbai (IND), January 23-24 Cargo Transport Logistics (CTL) Sales of logistics services in India reached a figure that was the equivalent of US$ 320 billion in 2016, equalling 14% of GDP.

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