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Municipal Strategy for the Urban Distribution of Goods Horizon 2030

Barcelona City Council is striving to organise, improve and make urban goods distribution in the city more efficient. It has therefore launched the Municipal Strategy for the Urban Distribution of Goods Horizon 2030 (EDUM in Catalan).

The EDUM is a city-wide strategy which aims to respond to the current challenges in relation to urban goods distribution and to provide a roadmap for the coming years. The Strategy should enable us to move towards a city model in which UGD is carried out as efficiently, sustainably and safely as possible. Its aim is to boost commerce in the city and improve the competitiveness of companies by reducing externalities.

 

The agreement for UGD and the participative process

To make this new Strategy a reality and to work together with the sector, Barcelona City Council, in cooperation with the city's most representative economic and business associations and the main union organisations, signed the “Agreement for a New Urban Goods Distribution Model” in which it defines, together with the private sector, the main goals to work towards in order to improve the current UGD model.

Between June and October 2022, various participation sessions were held in which the City Council shared the main aspects of the EDUM diagnosis and the proposals for action to achieve the goals set. Some 60 entities took part, representing the professional interests of carriers, logistics operators, commercial chains and groups of establishments, among others.

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  • Agreement for a New Urban Goods Distribution Model
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  • Document of the strategy

Goals of the strategy

1

Facilitate the distribution of goods to shops, businesses and other establishments in an efficient, organised, sustainable and safe manner.

2

Organise the new end user distribution options and favour active and sustainable mobility.

3

Incorporate the distribution associated with services, with its specificities, into UGD governance.

2030 TARGETS AND SPECIFIC MEASURES TO ACHIEVE THEM

Link to the strategy

  • Improve UGD at municipal markets: use spaces inside the markets to carry out logistics operations.
  • Extend loading and unloading hours throughout the city: extend the time periods during which this activity is permitted (in most cases loading and unloading is permitted between 8 am and 8 pm).
  • Promote night-time UGD: make it easier to obtain permits to distribute urban goods during night-time hours, simplify requirements and publicise this option. Increase the number of points to 500.
  • Study the conditions of use of loading and unloading bays: examine the possibility of adapting the conditions of use and parking times of different UGD vehicles in accordance with the model and the activity they carry out.
  • Study the USD model: learn more about this model given the high level of public space occupation it accounts for.
  • Increase the number of Urban Distribution Centres (UDCs) aimed at consumers (B2C): on average, these spaces have a surface area of between 100 and 300 m2, with a sustainable delivery capacity of 1,500 packages per day. There are also smaller models measuring 25 m2.
  • Increase the number of Urban Distribution Centres (UDCs) for businesses (B2B): they tend to have a surface area of around 250 to 300 m2. They can receive goods at off-peak hours and during the night and they free up loading and unloading areas during regular hours. The goods are then delivered using lower-impact vehicles.
  • Apply the Use Plan for home deliveries: at the start of the year, the full Municipal Council definitively approved the “Special plan for activities linked to home deliveries”, which among other points establishes the requirement for anyone wishing to deliver goods to customers’ homes to have indoor waiting spaces for the couriers and for parking vehicles so as not to cause a nuisance or saturate the public highway.
  • Amend the regulations on approved uses of car parks: with the “Special Urban Plan for New Activities in Car Parks in the City of Barcelona”. This measure aims to give public car parks in the city the option of establishing logistics spaces that will help to improve and optimise the management of urban goods distribution in Barcelona.
  • Create policies for converting to more sustainable vehicles – promote cycle logistics.
  • Provide support for private companies to manufacture zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) designed to undertake urban goods distribution. Barcelona City Council will collaborate in the development of this technology.
  • Boost sustainable mobility in the distribution of goods that are delivered to private customers from the municipal markets and local marketplaces (markets online).

The target is to have a minimum of one digital freight matching platform in the city.

  • Roll out a collection points network: work is being carried out to set up a network that would mean all city residents and companies have a goods collection point within 200 metres.
  • Promote digital freight matching platforms: these are platforms that enable the optimisation of vehicle load capacities, minimising the total number of journeys and operating with different distributors.
  • Make regulatory changes to increase cycle-logistics operating possibilities: by amending the byelaw on pedestrians and vehicle traffic, which among other points, establishes the conditions for the distribution of goods by bicycle and personal mobility vehicles.
  • Charges and taxation of e-commerce: a new rate to be paid by large postal operators for the special use they make of public space when they deliver e-commerce products to the final destination indicated by the end consumer.
  • Implement ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) and additional devices in goods distribution vehicles: based on the future DGT regulations which make it a requirement to install ADAS active safety systems, with devices for detecting the presence of potential hazards, and with acoustic and/or illuminated warning systems.
  • Classify new commercial vehicles: work with the DGT to establish the technical characteristics required for cycles and personal mobility vehicles used for goods distribution.
  • UGD training and skills acquisition: promote driving courses for carrying out safe loading and unloading operations. It should include both theoretical and practical training on current regulations, environmental aspects, ITC tools and health and safety, and it should be offered through Barcelona Activa.
  • Put in place specific collaboration agreements with institutions (DGT, Catalan Traffic Service, AMB) that work in the field of mobility to reduce accident rates among this group and improve the management of loading and unloading operations.
  • Extend the UGD Area to cover the whole of Barcelona.
  • Allow for a more flexible use of on-street loading and unloading areas.
  • Ensure the city police (Guàrdia Urbana, GUB) and B:SM have greater control over traffic indiscipline.
  • Make improvements to the SPRO app.
  • Expand the large-scale urban consolidation centres (UCCs): centres where large quantities of freight are delivered to then be distributed to smaller warehouse spaces (for example, Mercabarna).
  • Create rail freight hubs: spaces where goods arriving by freight rail can be left, stored and subsequently organised.
  • Reserve space for logistics operations on industrial estates: set up spaces where logistics can be located and carried out on industrial estates where economic activity is undertaken in the urban continuum.
  • Set up a metropolitan coordination and standardisation committee.
  • Extend the SPRO app to all metropolitan municipalities.
  • Improve communication channels with users that carry out logistics activities in the city.
  • Conduct communication and awareness-raising campaigns aimed at consumers to encourage them to use the most sustainable ways of shopping online or collecting their goods.
  • Continue monitoring freight traffic in the city.
  • Produce a survey on urban goods distribution in Barcelona.
  • Consolidate and update the current UDG Data Centre, as a space for holding all the available data on this activity.
  • Maintain and follow up the UGD working groups with at least one annual meeting.
  • Get involved in the strategies of these companies and research centres and carry out follow-up work.
  • Create a policy lab to roll out the municipal strategy.
  • Promote a UGD cluster: an industrial and technological cluster based around UGD in Barcelona, identifying the key players, opportunities for collaboration with the private sector and any demonstration projects of interest.
  • Funding for innovation in UGD: seek funding opportunities within the framework of the EU Next Generation economic recovery funds, the MOVES Plan, and other projects in the framework of the EIT or C40, among others, for projects linked to UGD.
  • International benchmark: international-scale studies on different aspects of UGD.
  • Incentives and bonuses to facilitate rollout of the municipal strategy.
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