The goal of the SUGAR project is to help solve the problem of inefficient and ineffective urban freight transport management, which is a very important element of the overall urban transport system and a major source of vehicle emissions.
SUGAR’s activities are based on: improving policies in the SUGAR project’s Good Practice Sites, developing policies in the SUGAR project’s Transfer Sites, and creating knowledge, tools, and exchange for new administrations outside the SUGAR partnership through the Extended Transfer Programme.
After developing a SWOT analysis of logistics in Poznań and analyzing 44 good practices in logistics identified in the project, a Vision and strategy for logistics development is currently being prepared. This short document will set the most important goals to be achieved to increase the efficiency of the logistics system and reduce the nuisance of delivery and heavy goods vehicle traffic for the environment and residents in Poznań. This document also refers to good practices, identifying those that, taking into account local conditions, could be implemented in Poznań. After defining the initial version, accepted by city experts, the Vision and strategy is to be discussed with external parties, including representatives of neighboring municipalities, county and regional authorities, transport operators from Poznań, and small retailers. For this purpose, local strategy development workshops will be organized. The meeting will present the project results and the initial version of the strategy. The organizers are counting on valuable and constructive comments from the meeting participants. The strategy development workshops are also linked to a SUGAR project dissemination meeting, where the knowledge gathered during the project will be presented more broadly. The most interesting logistics solutions in other European cities will be presented then. The meetings will take place at the turn of September and October. Anyone interested in the project and the development of urban logistics can take part in them. Information about the meetings will be provided by Anna Dorna from the Institute of Logistics and Warehousing.
