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Within the consortium of the CIVITAS WIKI project, TRT was responsible for drafting the second Policy Note, focusing on the topic of shared mobility. With this policy note, CIVITAS WIKI intends to provide cities with a comprehensive overview on shared-mobility concepts and practices. It also aims to offer guidance to decision makers, policy makers and urban mobility professionals in identifying opportunities and challenges of shared mobility for their cities.
In recent years, shared-mobility services have had an increasing impact on urban mobility in many countries around the world. Shared-mobility services have developed in many forms: some of them are already tried and tested, while others are relatively new and have yet to achieve their full potential. They range from the more traditional car sharing, ride sharing and bike sharing services to more innovative solutions of ride sourcing services and car park sharing. Also, novel shared-mobility services are becoming increasingly available for goods and urban freight deliveries. The new mobility paradigm has relevant impacts on cities and their mobility planning strategies and plans, seeking to address several questions. How can cities best manage the emergence of these new shared-mobility services? How can the relationship between private and public interests best be managed? What benefits and opportunities can be identified and exploited at city level? What challenges and potential negative impacts need to be taken into account?

Authors: Caterina Di Bartolo, Simone Bosetti, Claudia de Stasio, Patrizia Malgieri; Ivan Uccelli (infographic)

July 2016

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Within the consortium of the CIVITAS WIKI project, TRT was responsible for drafting this Policy Note, focusing on the topic of urban freight logistics.
Freight distribution is a vital part of life in modern cities and plays a relevant role within the whole urban mobility system. Although urban freight systems have not received much attention to date, actual demographic trends showing an increasing urbanization, together with the pervasive role of information and communication technologies and the consistent growth of e-commerce are bound to pose further challenges to the urban freight system. Among the different components of urban mobility, urban freight logistics is in fact traditionally considered as the least sustainable because of its evident negative impacts (generating noise and pollutant emissions, increasing congestion and posing a threat to the safety of road users).
That is why it is necessary to encourage the reflection upon these issues, the sharing of experiences and best practices between cities and the raising of awareness among decision-makers in order to trigger alternative, and more sustainable, approaches to urban freight planning.

Authors: Tito Stefanelli, Caterina Di Bartolo, Giuseppe Galli, Enrico Pastori, Hans Quack, Ivan Uccelli (infographics)

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