City Logistics in the European CIVITAS Initiative

This paper discusses the developments of city logistics in the CIVITAS initiative. CIVITAS is a large European Commission co-funded program to support sustainable urban mobility. Urban freight logistics is one of eight CIVITAS clusters by which cities aim to improve sustainability in their cities. During the last decade the CIVITAS initiative resulted in 53 innovative urban freight logistics measures that have been implemented and evaluated in European cities. This contribution presents the different measures and their outcomes. The overall conclusion is that partnerships between urban freight logistics stakeholders are essential in making the measure a success.