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Quantification of Urban Freight Transport Effects

Quantitative information on urban freight transport is not widely available, especially not on European level. This means the size of the urban freight transport is unknown on many levels. A reasonable amount of data is available, but usually on very specific areas and often only in the local language.

Another major problem is that urban freight is not considered as a first priority problem in most countries. On the other hand, national governments consider urban freight transport to be a local problem, which means cities are responsible for dealing with urban freight. Most cities, except some very large ones and some with specific concerns, don't have the capacity to evaluate the highly complex urban freight situation. This means that the effects of measures are not widely understood and its contribution to the economy, environmental problems and society are not known.

This BESTUFS working field aims to provide a useful, inspiring information for anyone interested in obtaining a first urban freight transport data set and references to more specific information.

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