In Apulia Region, the Operative Programme 2009-2013 of the Regional Plan for Transport (PRT) set up a Master Plan for Freight and Logistics (PML), which has the role to define physical and non-physical actions, such as organizational, administrative, and normative, for the establishment of an integrated logistic platform. The PML aims at promoting a high efficiency of the regional freight transport system, by helping offer/demand matching, frequency, speed and accountability of the main local/national/international connections, load traceability and transport security. Inspired to the co-modality principle, that is, the efficient use of transport modes operating singularly or integrated in a multimodal system, in order to use the resources in a sustainable way, the PML has the ambition to integrate the main hubs of the regional logistic system, such as ports, airports, logistic platforms, and warehouses. The proposed action aims at addressing the PML to sustainability, by the means of a strategic plan, and to create a smart and sustainable regional logistic cluster. Cluster, because the action aims at developing shared regional practices based on a governance model with the participation of logistic and economic stakeholders, by promoting knowledge exchange, best practices dissemination, long-life learning of the employees and high education courses for the employables, as well as by defining common strategies, rules, and standards, innovative and sustainable. Smart, because the action aims at providing an interactive information system, able to support the choice of the best freight transport alternative, with a complete information on the economic, social, and environmental costs. Sustainable, finally, because the action aims at contributing to prioritize the renewable energy use, to improve the integration between different transport modes and to prefer those more environmental friendly, by defining quality criteria to address the choices of the regional logistic services' users. Throughout specific studies and pilot actions, the action will focus on the main environmental and energy outputs of the transport and logistic activities in the Region. The action, in particular, aims at identifying what technologies, procedures and rules could be introduced to reduce use of fossil fuels. The regional size of the action will permit to extend the strategy to the main regional hubs and the existing transport infrastructure, in order to implement the global performance of the different transport modes by non-physical applications, such as Intelligent Transport Systems, or freight dedicated corridors, or rules for "smart" priorities, or strategies for the transition to the intermodality. The action will have function to address and organize the PML and is structured as follow: - A survey of the main environmental and energy outputs of the logistic activities at regional level; best practices in the sustainable freight transport; Efficiency and sustainability indicators; selection of alternative eco-sustainable activities - Identification of two pilot actions to be tested in two of the main logistic infrastructure of the Region, Interporto Regionale della Puglia and Brindisi Port Authority - Development of the two pilot actions (Project, Implementation and Monitoring) - Evaluation and assessment of the pilot actions and design of the Sustainable Logistic Strategic Action Plan, including regional strategic measures, guidelines, technical specifications and standards for the regional activities in the Logistic field - Finally, a communication and dissemination activity will booster knowledge in the regional cluster The study results could be used in the future as environmental friendly requirements to be satisfied by transport and logistic companies and infrastructures managers in order to obtain regional incentives or taxes facilitation.
TOWARDS AN INTELLIGENT AND SUSTAINABLE LOGISTICS CLUSTER IN THE APULIAN REGION
Pace Giuseppe
2010
Abstract
In Apulia Region, the Operative Programme 2009-2013 of the Regional Plan for Transport (PRT) set up a Master Plan for Freight and Logistics (PML), which has the role to define physical and non-physical actions, such as organizational, administrative, and normative, for the establishment of an integrated logistic platform. The PML aims at promoting a high efficiency of the regional freight transport system, by helping offer/demand matching, frequency, speed and accountability of the main local/national/international connections, load traceability and transport security. Inspired to the co-modality principle, that is, the efficient use of transport modes operating singularly or integrated in a multimodal system, in order to use the resources in a sustainable way, the PML has the ambition to integrate the main hubs of the regional logistic system, such as ports, airports, logistic platforms, and warehouses. The proposed action aims at addressing the PML to sustainability, by the means of a strategic plan, and to create a smart and sustainable regional logistic cluster. Cluster, because the action aims at developing shared regional practices based on a governance model with the participation of logistic and economic stakeholders, by promoting knowledge exchange, best practices dissemination, long-life learning of the employees and high education courses for the employables, as well as by defining common strategies, rules, and standards, innovative and sustainable. Smart, because the action aims at providing an interactive information system, able to support the choice of the best freight transport alternative, with a complete information on the economic, social, and environmental costs. Sustainable, finally, because the action aims at contributing to prioritize the renewable energy use, to improve the integration between different transport modes and to prefer those more environmental friendly, by defining quality criteria to address the choices of the regional logistic services' users. Throughout specific studies and pilot actions, the action will focus on the main environmental and energy outputs of the transport and logistic activities in the Region. The action, in particular, aims at identifying what technologies, procedures and rules could be introduced to reduce use of fossil fuels. The regional size of the action will permit to extend the strategy to the main regional hubs and the existing transport infrastructure, in order to implement the global performance of the different transport modes by non-physical applications, such as Intelligent Transport Systems, or freight dedicated corridors, or rules for "smart" priorities, or strategies for the transition to the intermodality. The action will have function to address and organize the PML and is structured as follow: - A survey of the main environmental and energy outputs of the logistic activities at regional level; best practices in the sustainable freight transport; Efficiency and sustainability indicators; selection of alternative eco-sustainable activities - Identification of two pilot actions to be tested in two of the main logistic infrastructure of the Region, Interporto Regionale della Puglia and Brindisi Port Authority - Development of the two pilot actions (Project, Implementation and Monitoring) - Evaluation and assessment of the pilot actions and design of the Sustainable Logistic Strategic Action Plan, including regional strategic measures, guidelines, technical specifications and standards for the regional activities in the Logistic field - Finally, a communication and dissemination activity will booster knowledge in the regional cluster The study results could be used in the future as environmental friendly requirements to be satisfied by transport and logistic companies and infrastructures managers in order to obtain regional incentives or taxes facilitation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
