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Lessons from the Last Mile: Evolving Practices for Urban Logistics

This document highlights five key solution areas for sustainable last-mile logistics, each illustrated with a real-world promising practice. The solution areas represent a strategic approach that addresses specific challenges in urban logistics transformation, while the promising practices represent real-world implementations that show potential for impact based on early results but may still be evolving. 

Case Study: Resilience and Reinvention in City Policy

Prepared by the Centre for Urban Transformation in partnership with the City of Madrid and the Alliance for Clean Air, this case study offers key insights for city policy-makers and stakeholders on how the City of Madrid successfully redefined its Low Emissions Zone policy, thereby advancing cleaner air and a healthier urban environment. 

Ambition Statement on Urban Deliveries

Companies across the logistics, e-commerce and retail sectors are adopting innovative solutions and collaborating with cities to create a more sustainable and efficient future for urban deliveries.

Transforming Urban Logistics: Sustainable and Efficient Last-Mile Delivery in Cities

This white paper outlines strategies and recommendations for enhancing sustainability, efficiency and innovation in urban deliveries, with the aim of reducing emissions, alleviating congestion and improving safety in cities.

Scaling Investment in EV Charging: A Policy Roadmap for Cities

This paper offers a strategic policy roadmap that city governments can use to scale investment in EV charging infrastructure. It focuses on four action areas: strategic planning; policies and regulation; data; and grid capacity and access to electricity.

The Urban Mobility Scorecard tool

The Urban Mobility Scorecard tool is a tool for cities to benchmark progress towards sustainable mobility. Informed by deep consultation with private operators, public authorities and leading civil society groups, the Scorecard tool seeks to raise ambition for action on urban mobility.

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The Alliance collaborates with vision-aligned communities and initiatives supporting a sustainable and efficient mobility future

How Mobility Shapes Inclusion and Sustainable Growth in Global Cities

To make mobility the key to inclusion and sustainable growth, innovative and expanded solutions for public- and private-sector mobility organizations are needed. 

Sustainable Road Transport and Pricing

A call for new approaches to road pricing in conjunction with comprehensive mobility plans designed in partnership with communities

Unlocking Large-Scale, Long-Term Capital for Sustainable Mobility

Unlocking financing by developing business strategies for electric fleet adoption for goods & people movement.

Paving the Way: EU Policy Action for Automotive Circularity

Presenting key policy interventions linked to specific EU revision processes setting the benefits of a circular automotive industry in motion.

Pandemic and Parcels: Envisioning the Next Normal for the Last-Mile Ecosystem

This report aims to explore how recovering from the pandemic can be a catalyst for digitalization and decarbonization.

Major Green Technologies and Implementation Mechanisms in Chinese Cities

Supporting the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development Special Policy Study 3.2, including focus on the impact of mobility on the greening of cities in China.

Guidelines for City Mobility: Steering towards collaboration

Defining eight practical guidelines that help establish, develop and strengthen partnerships between cities and mobility partners.

Shared, Electric and Automated Mobility (SEAM) Governance Framework: Prototype for North America and Europe

A prototype framework for integrated shared, electric and automated mobility (SEAM) governance. 

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The Innovation Impact Alliance collaborates with vision-aligned communities and initiatives supporting a sustainable and efficient mobility future

Zero Emissions Area (ZEA) Handbook

A multistakeholder toolkit for building informed city strategy to transition to zero emission areas (ZEAs) featuring: 20+ proposed measures, comprehensive examples (street, zone, district) and a quantitative modeling tool developed with a US city.

COVID Mobility Works

Launched mid-2020, the platform is dedicated to collecting, synthesizing and sharing mobility initiatives that kept the world moving during the COVID.

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