| Category | Measures | Descriptions | | Stakeholders engagement | City Logistics Manager | Like the concept of the Mobility Manager, the function of City Logistics Manager (CLM) is designed to reduce demand in relation to the mobility of goods in urban areas. By implementing this new role, a good level of acceptance is expected due to the institutional function of the designated person. |
| Stakeholders engagement | Freight advisory boards | In general, freight advisory boards are implemented as stand-alone bodies in medium and small urban areas, with the aim of coordinating different interests and needs. The boards aim to facilitate the implementation of freight initiatives and to create communications channels between stakeholders. It requires a high degree of coordination among different actors. The freight advisor board needs to be composed of representatives of the supply chain (transport operators, shippers, retails chains, shop-owners), public authorities, experts and other stakeholders (like industry and commerce association, consumers association, residents' associations). |
| Stakeholders engagement | Freight Quality Partnerships (FQP) | Freight quality partnerships (FQP) are long term partnerships between urban freight stakeholders that, on a formal or informal basis, meet regularly to discuss and provide an agreement between the stakeholders to understand the issues and problems of freight transport, promoting constructive solutions to reconcile the need for access to goods and services with local concerns of social and environmental nature. This is an opportunity to achieve worthwhile results at a relatively modest cost. However, it can be difficult to gather all types of stakeholders needed. |
| Stakeholders engagement | Green freight programs | Green freight programs aimed at improving the environmental performance, through fuel efficiency and emissions reductions, by encouraging the freight sector to act in this way. The purpose is to guide stakeholders on the track towards green logistics and recognize their initiatives. |
| Stakeholders engagement | Sustainable Urban Logistics Planning (SULP) | A Sustainable Urban Logistics Plan (SULP) is a strategic plan designed to improve the urban logistics by ensuring a better quality of life. It builds on existing planning practices and takes due consideration of integration, participation, and evaluation principles. The SULP intends to be a document which engages a maximum of stakeholders in implementing) a set of actions, for which they will be mutually responsible. |
