Planning and Sustainable Development of Urban Logistics: From International Goals to Regional Realization

Abstract

Urban transport has negative impacts on sustainability development in environmental, economic and social terms. The freight flows must be organized in such a way as to achieve sustainable development objectives through measures generating benefits and reducing costs on different levels of the supply chain. To promote sustainable urban logistics it is necessary to analyze the city development collecting the main data on the stakeholders behavior and planning actions for virtuous behavior to provide the best practices. The paper will focus on the rules about city logistics, considering the framework of the international and national goals to identify the way of transmission from one level to another. The rules processed at different territorial levels will show the absence of a well-defined link between one level and another and the voluntary choice of each administrative level to agree, or not, to the sustainable development process. The case of Calabria will be described. Calabria, achieving goals derived from the UN, the EU and by the Italian State, through planning tools, such as the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) and the Economy and Finance Document of Calabria Region 2019-2021 (EFD), is an exemplary case of best practices. It is promoting and driving city logistics rules for implementation of sustainable development.

City Logistics Between International Vision and Local Knowledge to Sustainable Development: The Regional Role on Planning and on Public Engagement

“…Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs [1]. It can be defined through its three main components: economy, society and environment; three important and independent sectors that are closely linked in the field of sustainability [14].…”

“…Calabria, achieving international, European and national targets, through planning tools, such as the RTP and the EFDR, is an exemplary case of best practices. It is promoting and supporting to city logistics rules for city implementation development [14]. For this reason, the regional administration has developed processes of programming and implementation carried out by regional offices.…”

Logical Framework Approach to Calabria Sustainable Development: The Intervention Program on School Buildings

“…The economic sustainability is mainly the ability to generate income and work for the population livelihood; the social sustainability is the ability to guarantee conditions of human well-being equally distributed by classes and gender; the environmental sustainability is the ability to maintain the quality and reproducibility of natural resources [2].…”

Green and Safety School Regional Program to Sustainable Development Using Limited Traffic Zone

“…City logistics[26,27] is to against climate change and to increase environmental[28][29][30], economic[31][32][33] and social sustainability[34][35][36][37].City logistics measures can be summarized on: regulation of the supply, demand management, infrastructural interventions, ICT and ITS applications, Use of eco-friendly and innovative vehicles, interventions for public-private collaboration and reverse logistics[38,39]. The Region has carried out an overall technical and administrative way for City Logistics measures by definition and implementation of the planning, programming and implementation processes, and by public engagement[40,41]. The aim is to push local administrations to implement effective urban logistics according to the indications of APUM[42,43] and SUMPs[44][45][46][47] too.After Implementation Program approval[11], two financing calls are published[48].…”