Project duration: January 2024 until December 2026

FRESH is a research project, funded by DUT (Driving Urban Transition Partnership) and national funders, 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 to integrated personal and freight transport planning
• to develop sustainable urban logistics concepts in relation to shopping in a 15-min city, with a 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.

Involved in FRESH are the universities: TU Dortmund University, Gustave Eiffel University, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and ETH Zurich.

Research Team

ETH Zurich:

• Prof. Dr. Eva Heinen, full professor and chair of the Transportation and Mobility Planning Group at ETH Zurich.

TU Dortmund University:

• Prof. Dr. Frank Othengrafen, full professor and chair of the Urban and Regional Planning Group at TU Dortmund.

• Dr. Furqan Bhat, postdoctoral researcher in the Urban and Regional Planning Group at TU Dortmund.

• Dr. Giulio Mattioli, senior postdoctoral researcher in the Urban Development Research Group at TU Dortmund.

• Matthias Cremer-Schulte, research Associate at the Transport and Mobility Group at TU Dortmund.

• Mara Jäger, student Associate at the Urban and Regional Planning Group at TU Dortmund.

• Prof. Dr. Eva Heinen, former head of the transport and mobility group at TU Dortmund.

University Gustave Eiffel:

• Prof. Dr. Laetitia Dablanc, full professor and founder and head of the Logistics City Chair at Gustave Eiffel University.

• Abel Kebede Reda, postdoctoral researcher at the Logistics City Chair at Gustave Eiffel University.

Norwegian University of Science and Technology:

• Prof. Dr. Trude Tørset, full professor within the Road, Rail and Transport research group at Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

• Ellen Heffer Flaata, research associate at Road, Rail and Transport research group at Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Other involved partners

In addition to the team members in science, other partners involved in the project are city administrations and one non-profit organisation:

• Métropole du Grand Paris, the metropolitan government of Greater Paris

• Trondheim Municipality

• Dortmund Municipality

• POLIS ABEL (Non-profit Organisation)

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)

More information on the funding can be found on the project website.