Optilog in U-Turn HORIZON 2020

OPTILOG is participating as full partner in a 3-year research project funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 program. The U-TURN project aims at addressing freight urban distribution, focusing on food logistics. The project will contribute to the optimization of freight distribution in urban areas, especially addressing the requirements and needs of food transportation, and will suggest innovative collaboration practices and tools towards achieving more efficient operations from both environmental and cost perspective. The project will analyze existing freight urban flows, identify synergies and winning logistics sharing and collaboration strategies (e.g. transport pooling, urban consolidation centers) and will assess them in three ways: through comparative analysis based on actual market data, through simulation experimentation and via pilot execution in four different countries: Germany, UK, Italy and Greece. U-TURN will further contribute to the adoption of these strategies through managerial assessment, quantifiable benefits and the provision of tools, including a “smart” transport matching tool, a collaboration platform, a simulation tool and an economic assessment model. The project aims to exploit the opportunities that currently exist for consolidation of transportation flows from food manufacturers to the various point-of-sales located in urban areas, as well as from local food producers and online retailers directly to consumers, and the high industrial interest behind this topic.

For further information please visit the web site of the project http://www.u-turn-project.eu/