Customer: Community Initiative, INTERREG IIIB/CADSES Ref. No. A033

Duration: July 2003 – December 2004

The general target of the CITY PORTS project is the re-organization and the process reengineering of the city logistics in medium and small size urban systems, making them to work in a coherent, efficient and sustainable way. This will be achieved by integrating the main EU policies and priorities active at local level, namely the EU policies and measures for the sustainable spatial development, the improvement of socio-economic cohesion, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the EU policies on transport.
Key innovative features of the project are the development, experimentation and diffusion of a methodology for analysis, selection, feasibility and implementation of optimized and integrated “city logistics solutions”. The areas of innovation will be identified in the development of integrated models and in the evaluation criteria, rather than in the individual technical solutions. The CITY PORTS project will establish an information network on city logistics solutions among the 21 participants in order to give a wide range of effective prototype solutions in which the networked knowledge transfer can support the improvement of quality of specific city logistic solutions. Specific characteristics of CITY PORTS are a number of feasibility and implementation actions to be performed with the strong participation of the private sector, while a substantial part of the budget is allocated to pilot projects that will be developed in various EU cities covering the whole CADSES area

Role of TREDIT:
– Planning and management of the Greek pilot activities (Prefecture of Kavala and Region of Attica)
– Definition of the methodology analysis
– Review and analysis of ICT tools in the field of city logistics
– Planning and overall coordination of activities for the implementation of the Greek pilot actions
– Management and coordination of 1 transnational meeting of the project in Greece
– Preparation and submission of technical progress reports
– Holding of interviews and critical analysis in 2-3 city logistics cases in CADSES area
– SWOT analysis concerning relevant city logistics cases
– Contribution to the development of guidelines and code of good practice in the field of city logistics
– Review on the implementation of ICT in city logistics