There is growing interest in the logistics of collection and delivery services in town and city centres in particular. The main driving forces thathelped to rise awareness and to make freight transport a topic on the agenda of urban planners are first, sustainability as a priority topic on theagenda of cities, second, the changes in the economy and the society and third, European initiatives for exchanging experiences and good practices in urban freight transport. Cities start to initiate combinations of urbanfreight transport related measures and two practical examples are given for the cities Utrecht in The Netherlands and Barcelona in Spain. It is important to consider that there is no top-innovation suitable for all the cities but that each city needs to implement those measures which match its structural and societal situation best. For the covering abstract see ITRDE139491.
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