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About START

START deals with making goods distribution more energy efficient by combining access restrictions, incentives and the development of consolidation centres. START is coordinated by the City of Göteborg.

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Håkan Perslow
Lisa Sundell

Bristol	Bristol City Council DHL-Exel Supply Chain
Göteborg	City of Göteborg, Traffic & Public Transport Authority Åkeriföreningen
Ljubljana	City of Ljubljana Prometni institut Ljubljana
Ravenna	Comune di Ravenna CONSAR ITL
Riga	Riga City Council, Traffic Department
Evaluation	ISIS

The City Council in Bristol is pursuing a strategy to organise and manage the movement of freight efficiently through Bristol and the surrounding area. Benefits of such management would be felt throughout the city, with distribution and warehousing clustered in a number of distinct areas. The current Local Transport Plan supports the development of a freight distribution centre, which has been implemented through the CIVITAS VIVALDI project. The Joint Local Transport Plan, which is the replacement policy, is currently being developed supports the continuation of the scheme and investigation of expansion possibilities. In Bristol planned activities will seek to efficiently manage and where appropriate prioritise the movement of freight vehicles particularly here these access control and priority techniques will promote and support the use of the consolidation scheme.
Contact person: Ed Minihane

DHL-Exel supply chain is one of the world's largest dedicated supply chain companies with well-developed capabilities throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia to support globalisation, supply chain integration and market expansion. Locally within the UK, DHL-Exel supply chain, has been developing a retail freight consolidation concept and has worked with Bristol City Council to implement the European backed VIVALDI consolidation scheme for Bristol.
Contact person: Ian Foster

Göteborg is Sweden’s second largest city with 480 000 inhabitants with the biggest port in the Nordic Region. The port in combination with the city being a transport hub for transit traffic, leads to a continuous increase of transports in general and of freight transports in particular. For Göteborg to continue developing as an attractive regional centre, a well functioning traffic environment that fulfils high demands on accessibility, safety and environmental sustainability, is needed. Within START Göteborg aims at further develop the already existing environmental zone by increasing the load factor and promoting clean vehicles.
Contact person: Magnus Jäderberg

CThe Swedish Road Haulage Association is the road haulage industry’s professional body and is represented regionally by 12 haulage associations. One of them is Åkeriföreningen, representing 1 300 members and about 4 400 vehicles. Åkeriföreningen works to promote the development of the Swedish road haulage industry regionally as well as looking after and supporting members’ interests by dealing the local government, authorities, political parties, organisations and companies. In addition, Åkeriföreningen provides support, and service to its members concerning issues such as company development, quality and environmental work.
Contact person: Magnus Jäderberg

Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, is with its 265.000 inhabitants and an area of 275 km² considered to be among one of the smaller cities in Europe. Ljubljana has experienced a big increase of freight traffic since joining the European Union and is facing problems in the field of urban goods transportation. Ljubljana has no previous experience in working with goods management and will within START function as a follower city where the exchange of experience with the other cities and partners is the main focus. The primary role for the city is to establish a local freight network.
Contact person: Boris Jagodic

The Prometni institut will within START support the City of Ljubljana to prepare a model and measures for future urban management of goods. Prometni institut is specialised research institute in traffic and transport. The company is owned by the Slovenian railways and its main activities involve research and development in the field of transport economy, transport planning, railway traffic technology and infrastructure. The institute also works with project computer support and software development.
Contact person: Blaz Jemensek

Ravenna is the city in the Emilia-Romagna region with the highest numbers of vehicles per inhabitant. The specific structure of the regions economy leads to a very high demand for commercial vehicles trips and this has consequences for the urban environment, which has lead to freight issues being given top priority. The city of Ravenna will in the START project reorganise access restriction regulation of freight transport; improve urban freight distribution through consolidation of deliveries and provide of incentives for the promotion of clean freight vehicles. These activities will be carried out with the support from the research ITL and the haulage constortium CONSAR.
Contact person: Ennio Milia

CON.S.A.R., Consorzio Sterratori Autotrasportatori Ravennati, based in Ravenna is a transport company founded in 1960, with about 94 employees, 350 partners and about 1000 trucks. The services provided by CON.S.A.R. are national and international transports by motor vehicles of all type of freights, including transports of big loads, of fresh food and collection of waste. In 1993 CON.S.A.R. obtained the Certification for Quality System.
Contact person: William Bissoni

ITL is a non-profit foundation founded in 2003 by the Emilia-Romagna Region as a supporting expert body to operate in the field of transport and logistics. ITL supports public administrations in the formulation of guidelines and proposals for the creation of policies and also supports the Region in the development of activities in various European projects.
Contact person: Guido Ferilli

Riga, the capital of Latvia and the largest city of the Baltic States with a population of 728.000, is a historical urban centre sharing the same negative trends witnessed by many European cities: rapid growth of the urban fabric, increasing ownership of private cars, increasing congestion, and increasing adverse environmental impacts. Raising traffic volumes have been responsible for the heavy traffic in the city centre, particularly in correspondence of the three existing bridges on the Daugava River, which are severely congested during morning and night peak hours. In the Riga Development Plan 2006-2018 the basis for how to achieve a balanced and sustainable development of the City of Riga is presented. However, as Riga has neither developed a program for transport and delivery transport improvements, it will within the framework of START begin to outline how to relieve the historical centre from the burdens caused by the local system of freight distribution, and namely by undefined goods delivery zones and uncoordinated goods delivery services.
Contact person: Olita Spronge

ISIS a highly specialised research and consultancy institute, whose core competence is in the field of i) qualitative and quantitative system analysis for policy support in the areas of Energy, Transport and Environment., ii) information management, iii) management of evaluation programmes, and iv) database design and development. ISIS was established in 1971, and has since accrued a recognised expertise in servicing a wide range of public and private institutions, at the European, national and local level.
Contact person: Mario Gualdi