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When it comes to transporting goods by road, the last few miles travelled in urban areas are the most expensive and the most diffi cult. The density of the traffi c, congestion, size restrictions, the implementation of municipal mobility plans and the rise in local regulations (sometimes variable and not paying much attention to freight) are all obsta-cles to the smooth running of deliveries in urban centres.

‘‘UrbanZen off ers a centralised, col-laborative solution to help free up the urban traffi c of heavy goods vehicles”, explains Sylvain Detrembleur, the pro-ject manager for NSI IT Software & Ser-vices. “It is based on centralising geo-graphical information coming from the drivers themselves and the municipal authorities”.

This solution is designed to establish the existence of congestion hotspots for carriers and incorporate them into mobility policies implemented by

municipal authorities. Information is passed on to the drivers via GPS so they can automatically change their route by calculating an alternative itinerary to suit the restrictions communicated by municipal administrators. The system uses telematics already available in vehicles (without any extra hardware), or just a Smartphone.

The IT platform will fi rst be established for Belgium, then rolled out to the rest of Europe. It is based on open road information telecommunication stand-ards (TPEG protocol, currently devel-oped by an international association, TISA) and an OpenGIS geographical web solution (open standard common around the world).

As well as this, it fi ts in perfectly with Belgian and European policies (the BestUFS, Civitas and Sugar pro-grammes), by consolidating public/pri-vate collaboration to resolve mobility problems in urban environments.

OBJECTIVES

To off er a centralised, collaborative so-lution for traffi c plans to distribute frei-ght in an urban environment

KEY DETAILS

Budget: 2,575,160 €Subsidies: 1,526,871 €Project duration: September 2012 – February 2015

PROJECT PARTNERS

- NSI IT Software & Services (leader)- Smolinfo- M3 Systems- Multitel research center- Belgian Road Research Center- Fernand Michel Transport- Fockedey Transport

URBANZENWhen centralising geographical information helps optimise journey times for heavy goods vehicles in towns and cities

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