SUGAR Project Successfully Completed

Thu, 08/03/2012

The Project on Sustainable Urban Goods Logistics Achieved by Regional and Local Policies (SUGAR), running from November 2008 to February 2012, focused on addressing the problem of inefficient and ineffective management of urban freight distribution, a critical component of the overall urban transport system and a primary source of vehicle pollutant emissions.

SUGAR promoted the exchange, discussion and transfer of policy experience, knowledge and good practices in the field of urban freight management, with regard to policy and planning levers between and among advanced and less-experienced sites.

The partnership brought together 12 sites in 9 different countries: Italy (Emilia-Romagna Region), United Kindgom (London), France (Paris), Spain (Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca), Greece (Region of Crete), Bulgaria (Vratsa), Slovenia (Celje), Poland (Poznan) and the Czech Republic.

The CEI relied on its contacts and its networks established during its various activities in order to disseminate the project’s objectives and results at national level. In particular, the CEI successfully organised a SUGAR event back-to-back with the Second SEETAC Ministerial Meeting that attracted a vast audience, on 16 November 2010 in Tirana. The SUGAR event under the title ‘Urban Freight Management : an Exchange of Good Practices in the European Context and Beyond’ gathered national stakeholders from the EU partner countries as well as from Western Balkan countries. About 40 participants attended the event, among which high-level officials from the Ministry of Transport of Albania, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, as well as the Ministry of Environment of Italy and several other relevant stakeholders such as universities, the Albanian Institute of Transport, etc.    The CEI will continue to target the national policy makers through its active institution channels and governmental links through  specific dissemination activities having a more result-oriented strategy. This will also be carried out through its institutional meetings and events. Moreover, the CEI will focus on identifying  well-targeted contacts and it will make sure the results of the project  will be advertised at national level.   The CEI thanks the LP- Region Emilia Romagna and the Institute for Transport Logistics for their outstanding leadership and valuable cooperation provided throughout the project life-cycle.   For more information: http://www.sugarlogistics.eu/
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