Project duration: January 2024 until December 2026

Fresh is a project, funded by DUT (Driving Urban transition Partnership), focussing on shopping related mobility behaviour and urban logistics in Dortmund, Paris and Trondheim.

FRESH aims to:

• assess how urban planning in different settings impacts integrated personal and freight travel demand and consequent overall transport, emission and liveability
• to investigate the contribution of new and innovative solutions on integrated personal and freight transport planning
• to develop sustainable urban logistics concepts in relation to shopping in a 15-min city, with focus on reducing motorized transport

Therefore parts of the project will be:

• exploring potential options for sustainable last-mile urban logistics
• analysing current shopping patterns
• forecasting the impacts of novel urban logistics strategies
• exploring potential options for policies and design

All the latest information on the project can also be found on the project website.

DUT (Driving Urban Transitions)

The Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership is an intergovernmental research and innovation programme, which addresses the main challenges of urban transition. It is co-funded by 28 European countries and the European Commission. The programme aims to enable different players, e.g. local authorities and municipalities, citizens etc. in the urban context through research, innovation and capacity building to initiate transition processes.

National funding

• DLR (German Aerospace Center)
• ANR (Frech National Research Agency)
• NRC (Research Council of Norway)

Research Team

Technical  University Dortmund:

• Prof. Dr. Frank Othengrafen, professor and chair of the Urban and Regional Planning Group at TU Dortmund
• Dr. Giulio Mattioli, senior postdoctoral researcher in the Urban Development Group at TU Dortmund
• Carla Debbeler, Research Associate at the Transport and Mobility Group at TU Dortmund

EHT Zurich:

• Prof. Dr. Eva Heinen, full professor and chair of the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems

University Gustave Eiffel:

• Prof. Dr. Laetitia Dablanc, full professor, founder and head of the Logistics City Chair at EIFF
• Abel Kebede Reda, postdoctoral researcher at the Logistics City Chair at EIFF

Norwegian University of Science and Technology:

• Prof. Dr. Trude Tørset, full professor at the Road, Rail and Transport Group at NTNU
• Ellen Heffer Flaata, Research Associate at the Road, Rail and Transport Group at NTNU

Other involved partners

• Métropole du Grand Paris, the metropolitan government of Greater Paris
• Trondheim Municipality
• Dortmund Municipality
• POLIS ABEL (Non-profit Organisation)

Updates on the research will be posted on this page.