[Webinar] Strengthening Space for Freight: How cities and businesses can protect, preserve, and integrate land for urban logistics

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026

Urban freight produces an outsized share of cities’ transport-sector air pollution and, without more action, emissions from deliveries in urban centres could rise by 60% by 2030 (WEF). Fossil fuel trucks and vans making trips to and from dense urban areas are exacerbating the impacts of transport pollution on public health, increasing respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, especially among vulnerable populations.

As cities work to create cleaner, healthier, and more liveable urban neighbourhoods, the transition to zero-emission freight is becoming an urgent priority. In many cities there is a growing demand for land for urban logistics activity to support more housing and economic growth, yet space for freight is becoming increasingly scarce, expensive, and highly competitive with other high-value land users. The risk is that as logistics activity is pushed further and further out from city centres, this could potentially result in more and longer freight trips, leading to increased emissions and congestion.

This webinar will explore how cities and businesses can protect, preserve, and integrate valuable space to accelerate the adoption of zero-emission freight solutions and increase freight efficiency. Expect to hear case studies, innovative policies, and industry perspectives to address freight space challenges and opportunities.

Objectives

The primary objectives are:

• Open up the conversation on how cities and businesses can coordinate tailored actions to preserve, protect and proliferate spaces for freight activity in urban centres.
• Elevate positive urban freight case studies that are making an impact.
• Share recommendations for cities/businesses on how and why space for freight should be an intrinsic element of their plans to deliver zero emission freight practises at pace.

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

• Introduction
  
• Presentations. 
  • Ville de Paris. Michèle-Angélique Nicol (Head of the Mobility Agency / Public Space Sharing and Air Quality Unit)
    
  • City of Amsterdam
    
  • Weelo – Presentation of Weenlo vision and experience
    
  • Parkunload – SMART FREE PARKING ZONES and NEXTLOGIC presentation 
    
• Roundtable discussion
  
• Wrap up 

REGISTRATION

This event is open to both members and non-members.

The recorded session videos and presentations will be available in the  ALICE Knowledge Platform Urban Logistics event page:

NEXTLOGIC has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101238585. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.