SUGAR Project Public Event- Urban freight management: an exchange of good practices in the European context and beyond
Public Event: Urban freight
management : an exchange of good practices in the European context
and beyond - 16 November 2010
Brief Project Description
SUGAR focuses on addressing the problem of inefficient and
ineffective management of urban freight distribution, a critical
component of the overall urban transport system and a primary
source of vehicle pollutant emissions.
To accomplish this goal, the projects promotes the exchange,
discussion and transfer of policy experience, knowledge and good
practices through policy and planning levers in the field of urban
freight management, between and among Good Practice and Transfer
sites.
More information on www.sugarlogistics.eu
Rationale:
The CEI SUGAR event is meant to bring together national
stakeholders from the SUGAR partner countries and beyond and
illustrate project overall objectives as well as project
achievements. Moreover, the SUGAR event to be organised by the CEI
should open opportunity for transferring project achievements to
other EU countries not participating in the project. This
dissemination initiative is to occur in the framework of a larger
event that can provide a broader dissemination platform at the
level of national stakeholders.
The opportunity for this event will be given by acting in
synergy with a project led by CEI as Lead Partner. The project is
co-funded by the South East Europe Programme and it is called
SEETAC - South East Europe Transport Axis Cooperation.
SEETAC aims at the creation of a common strategy of SEE
countries with the rest of Europe and by linking the South East
Europe core network with TEN-T. This, by solving the
cross-border bottlenecks and the lack of harmonization among the
participating countries (South East Europe). It will also tackle
both the administrative problems, such as missing institutional and
legal transnational framework at border crossings, and the
operational ones, such as lack of common safety, security and
environmental standards, harmonisation of transport modes.
The SEETAC partnership is composed by ministries of
transport/infrastructure/environment of: Albania, Austria, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania,
Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.
The SEETAC Project has foreseen a conference at the ministerial
level, to be held in Tirana, Albania, on 15-16 November
2010. This is deemed to be the best framework to hold the
SUGAR event.
Organisational details:
- Specific targeted audience potentially interested in the SUGAR
topics will be identified through ministerial channels and specific
actions with the assistance of SEETAC colleagues from the Albanian
Ministry of Public Works and Transport;
- The SUGAR event will be organised as a separate event,
not overlapping with the Second SEETAC Ministerial Conference;
- Dedicated publicity and dissemination actions according to
INTEREREG IV Programme rules will be developed for the SUGAR
event;
- SUGAR to benefit from the resonance of the high level SEETAC
event;
- Specific actions to be made in order to draw the attention of
ministerial delegations coming to the SEETAC event, in cooperation
with the organising partners from the Albanian Ministry.
Draft agenda
SUGAR Project
(Sustainable Urban Goods
Logistics Achieved by Regional and Local Policies)
Urban freight management : an
exchange of good practices in the European context and beyond
16 November 2010, Tirana, Albania
Venue: Tirana International
Hotel
14.30 - opening addresses
14.40 - 15.00: The Sugar Project : aims ,
objectives and achievements, Emilia Romagna Region, Lead
Partner
15.00 - 15.20: The City of Usti nad Laben : the
benefits of the SUGAR Project
15.20 - 15.40: The City of London : a best
practice SUGAR city
15.40 - 16.00: SUGAR tools, INRETS
16.00 - 16.30: Discussion
16.30 - 17.00: The SUGAR Project: an
opportunity to be involved through the Good Practice Round table
and the Train the Trainer Sessions, ITL
17.00: Conclusions