Report: BESTUFS - BEST Urban Freight Solutions (BESTUFS)

Website: www.bestufs.net

BESTUFS is establishing and maintaining an open European network between urban freight transport experts, user groups/ associations, ongoing projects, interested cities, the relevant European Commission Directorates and representatives of national, regional and local transport administrations in order to identify, describe and disseminate best practices, success criteria and bottlenecks with respect to the movement of goods in urban areas.

It is the role of BESTUFS to act as a facilitator in order to ensure that excellent strategies and best practices are not lost to the remainder of the European Community, the freight community and cities themselves. Overall, BESTUFS will identify the problems and the requirements of the cities, will set up the environment for establishing recommendations and will identify best practice scenarios.The solutions promoted will undoubtedly be suitable for other cities within the European Community and it may be possible to offer modified tailor-made type approaches of generic solutions that have been previously applied. BESTUFS will therefore contribute:

• to the reduction of congestion and pollution problems associated with city freight logistics
• to the integration of urban collection and delivery services into door-to-door transport and logistics chains by bringing together the knowledge about urban goods transport and intermodal transport on an integrated systems approach and
• to the improvement of the quality of life in urban areas by analysing and building up environmental friendly and with town planning compatible strategies which reduce the goods transport intensity of economic growth.

This Thematic Network is operated with and funded by the European Commission in the 5th Framework Programme under the Key Action "Competitive and Sustainable Growth". The BESTUFS project started in 2000 with a duration of 4 years.

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