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BESTFACT: Best practices for freight

The four-year Best Practice Factory for Freight Transport (BESTFACT) project collected, developed, evaluated and disseminated innovative ideas for city logistics, green logistics, co-modality and e-freight, has closed. A new handbook, which includes 157 sustainable best practice examples from across Europe, is now available. The aim of the project is to help reduce negative environmental effects, improve transport execution efficiency and present the positive results of such measures. The knowledge platf
February 11, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
The four-year Best Practice Factory for Freight Transport (BESTFACT) project collected, developed, evaluated and disseminated innovative ideas for city logistics, green logistics, co-modality and e-freight, has closed. A new handbook, which includes 157 sustainable best practice examples from across Europe, is now available.

The aim of the project is to help reduce negative environmental effects, improve transport execution efficiency and present the positive results of such measures. The knowledge platform on the %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal BESTFACT Visit www.bestfact.net website false http://www.bestfact.net/ false false%> website collects case studies and provides additional tools that support sustainable transport solutions.

In this context, it was important that the best practice principles could be applied to other cities. "Of course, there is no standard formula that is valid for all scenarios. A city or an enterprise must decide what concept best fits their particular needs," says Marcel Huschebeck, project coordinator at PTV Group. "However, we could provide a basis for innovation and its implementation."

To this end, four criteria were checked: assessment of positive effects, high relevance for public and private bodies, good data availability to implement best practices and a high potential of transferability to other players and areas. The most promising best practices were then evaluated through an impact assessment.

The newly released handbook is another important result of the project, providing an overview of 157 concepts, strategies and activities currently implemented in the European transport logistics sector, including an analysis of 60 best practice examples. The handbook, case studies and fact sheets are all available for download from the BESTFACT website.

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