This research report is a casestudy of horeca logistics in Amsterdam. It shows the complexity, bottlenecks and opportunities in collaboration between market parties and the municipality in improving citylogistics. In March 2020 the Reguliersdwarsstraat in Amsterdam was virtually closed for 8 weeks by construction works in the surrounding streets. This meant the supply of the 30 horeca in would come under pressure. The municipality tried to anticipate these problems and started a project in November 2019 to convince the horeca and their suppliers to adopt an alternative, collaborative sustainable logistics solution. The idea was that the diminished accessibility in combination with stimulating, subsidizing and facilitation of a logistics solution by the municipality would give enough incentives for marketparties to change their behavior: more collaboration and more sustainable city logistics. If successful, this project could become a blueprint for future similar situations in Amsterdam and other cities.Unfortunately, the pilot ended already in the second week. The horeca closed because of Corona. Still important lessons where learned, especially that not logistics but stakeholder management is the main challenge in improving citylogistics. Improving citylogistics can be successful when not only suppliers and logistic service providers but also the receiving customers, policy makers and cityplanners are involved. Moreover, it is a very complex problem that is very case specific and cannot be worked out ‘behind a policymaker’s desk’ using general assumptions or solutions.
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A large share of urban freight in cities is related to construction works. Construction is required to create attractive, sustainable and economically viable cities. When activities at and around construction sites are not managed effectively, they can have a negative impact on the cities liveability. Construction companies implementing logistics concepts show a reduction of logistic costs, less congestion around the sites and improved productivity and safety. The client initially sets the ‘ground rules’ for construction in the tendering process. This paper explores how tendering for construction projects can support sustainable urban construction logistics. We explore the potential for tendering construction projects, by both public and private clients, for sustainable urban construction logistics and we present a conceptual framework for specifying ‘logistics quality’ as a quality criterion for EMAT (Economically Most Advantageous Tender). Our exploration results in questions for further research in tendering for sustainable urban construction logistics.
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