WHAT IS BESTUFS II?

LIST OF PARTNERS
BESTUFS II is a co-ordination action

Best Urban Freight Solutions

funded by the European Commission
PTV AG
under the 6th EU Framework Programme Stumpfstraße 1 - 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
for Research and Technological
Demonstration. It is a follow-up initiative
of the thematic network BESTUFS and NewRail
aims to maintain and expand an open Stephenson Building, University of Newcastle
upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
European network in order to identify,
describe and disseminate best practices,
success criteria and bottlenecks with NEA
respect to City Logistics. The BESTUFS II BESTUFS administration centre, P.O. Box
project started in 2004 with 1969, 2280 DZ Rijswijk, The Netherlands
a duration of 4 years.
Anyone who TRANSMAN
wishes to Hercegprímás utca 10. III. em. 4.,
participate in H-1051 Budapest, Hungary
BESTUFS events
or to receive information should contact
CDV
the administration centre Lisenska 33a, Brno, Czech Republic
(bestufs@nea.nl).

University of Westminster
University of Westminster, Headquarters,
309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW

RAPP TRANS AG
Uetlibergstrasse 132 – Postfach, CH-8045
Zürich, Switzerland

BESTUFS CONTACT DETAILS LET

For further information, please visit our 1SH. 14 av Berthelot, Lyon Cedex 07,
web site at www.bestufs.net or contact us: 69007, France
BESTUFS, Administration Centre,
P O Box 1969, 2280 DZ Rijswijk, The
Netherlands Email: bestufs@nea.nl
Tel No: +31 70 3988 356
Fax No: +31 70 3988 426
Best Urban Freight Solutions (BESTUFS) is a Distribution Centres. In the second phase of BESTUFS, BESTUFS II: an
network of experts, researchers, practitioners and FP6 Co-ordination Action, the network is refocusing
• City Access Fees and urban Pricing: What are the
policy makers focused on finding the best solutions on medium cities, in delivering Best Practice Guides
Consequences for urban Freight Transport?
to the problems and opportunities of freight in 17 EU languages, in continuing the programme of
distribution in the cities and towns of Europe. • Rail based Transport: A disappearing Opportunity themed international workshops and conferences,
or a Challenge for urban Areas of the website and the newsletters, and also looking
Europe is the most urbanised continent in the
at how to develop best practice for data modelling
world, with 80% of the population living in towns • Changing urban Transport due to E-commerce
in this arena.
and cities, the issues of how to supply goods and and E-Logistics
services to the citizens and businesses of the EU in In our workshop and conference programme we
• Optimised City Distribution Vehicles as demanded
a sustainable manner is a growing issue. aim to address themes outstanding from BESTUFS
by Transport Operators and Cities
phase one, revisit topics which demand further
In the first phase of BESTUFS, as an FP5 Thematic
• City Access, Parking Regulations and Access, attention, and explore new ones as they emerge in
Network, the network was developed, 12
Access Time Restrictions and Enforcement the field.
Workshops were held across the EU-25, 4 Best
Support
Practice Handbooks were written and published, 4
international Conferences were held , four
clustering reports on urban freight research were
issued, 15 nerwsletters published to a circulation of 2005 2006 2007 2008
some 1200, and a web portal was developed that by Seminars ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
2004 has a monthly hit rate of XXX visitors.
Conferences ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Themes identified by BESTUFS as of importance
Data Modelling Roundtables ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
were addressed in the following workshops:
Best Practice Handbooks ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
• Urban freight strategies: laissez-faire or following
a comprehensive strategy? Best Practice Guides (17 languages) ✓

• ITS in urban goods transport Bibiographic DVD Rom ✓ ✓ ✓

• Night delivery: a further option in urban Policy and research recommendations ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

distribution Quantification of urban freight transport effects ✓ ✓
• Successful private public partnership Best practice in data collection, modelling ✓ ✓
(PPP) enhancing urban goods transport
approaches & application fields
• Land Use Planning and Business
Models for urban