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European urban freight transport policies and research funding: are priorities and H2020 calls aligned?
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Abstract The European Commission (EC) has recently developed a growing awareness and interest with respect to the challenges urban freight transport (UFT) poses. Consequently, the EC has started defining specific policies and promoted dedicated tools to address them. Transport is a shared responsibility betw... view more
The European Commission (EC) has recently developed a growing awareness and interest with respect to the challenges urban freight transport (UFT) poses. Consequently, the EC has started defining specific policies and promoted dedicated tools to address them. Transport is a shared responsibility between the EU and the Member States, where the subsidiarity principle applies. Accordingly, the EC provides European local authorities with support in the different areas, including research and innovation funding. This paper aims to assess the linkage and consistency between EC policy priorities for UFT and the corresponding calls of the new Horizon 2020 (H2020) Research Programme, created by the EC in order to foster research and innovation. The paper identifies and extrapolates in a comparable format 10 UFT priority solutions, and consequently estimates their degree of correspondence with the H2020 Work Programmes (WPs) on the basis of the weight in monetary terms resulting from the research funds allocated to each of them. Findings show that, generally, the EC addresses UFT through a systematic and coherent approach. Moreover, all the identified solutions are covered by at least one H2020 call, although the extent of the coverage is heterogeneous.... view less
Keywords
city traffic; freight traffic; transportation policy; mobility; sustainability; public transportation; traffic; planning; research focus; EU
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
European Politics
Free Keywords
Horizon 2020; urban mobility; urban freight transport
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 53-71
Journal
Region: the journal of ERSA, 5 (2018) 1
Issue topic
Urban Freight, land use planning and public administration strategies
ISSN
2409-5370
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed