Which lines of action for local authorities to decrease environmental impact of urban freight transport

Urban freight transport is a source of numerous nega tive environmental impacts, such as emission of greenhouse gases, emission of local pollutant or noise pollution. Local public authorities can implement a significant number of measures in attempts to tackle these problems, but choosing the right set of instruments often remains a challenge. It is aim of this paper to investigate the panorama of possible urban freight transport measures and to provide a roadmap of measures that local public authorities can implement, according to the features of the urban freight transport that they are trying to tackle. In order to construct this roadmap, we have used two main sources of data: on one hand, a comprehensive literature review providing typologies of the urban freight transport measures that can be implemented by the local public authorities; on the other hand, a bottom-up approach based on the analysis of more than 180 urban freight transport measures undertaken in Europe and worldwide. This paper provides a comprehensive inventory of urban freight transport measures and a classification based on goals that they are pursuing (e.g. reducing the journeys per kg, reducing modal share of the road transport, etc.), and their nature (e.g. administrative measures, measures linked to physical infrastructure, etc.). The role of public authorities for each type of measure is discussed. Local public authorities can use directly these results in order to compare urban freight transport measures of different nature and chose the best set of measures to implement.

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