Local authorities' role in governing transport of goods and services in cities

An increasingly urbanising world brings new challenges such as increased home deliveries, innovative delivery services, car-free zones, and much more. Whilst there is an increasing number of public goals to reduce the use of private vehicles and to reduce emissions from the transport sector, many of these goals do not address transport of goods and services. Of those that do, many focus on emissions or on how to make goods transport more efficient. But what does efficient, low-emissions transport of goods and services (logistics) look like, and who should be included when deciding how to regulate it?

In this project, which is part of the CityFreight project (funded by the Research Council of Norway), I look at how the public sector may more actively regulate urban logistics in collaboration with different societal stakeholders. Governance of urban logistics has in the past been left to the private sector, and when the public sector has taken a role it has at the most consulted the private sector. I seek to gather different perspectives on the governance of urban logistics and then bring together different stakeholders in order to arrive at long-term solutions to new and future problems.

See an introductory presentation here:
Watch the webinar about sustainable logistics in Norwegian cities