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6.11.2.3. FREILOT project
The European FREILOT project ( Urban Freight Energy Efficiency Pilot ) [FRE]
was launched in April 2009 for a duration of two and a half years, with the objective
of improving the energy efficiency of goods transport in an urban environment. The
fuel consumption of delivery vehicles indeed depends on a number of factors among
which is the performance of the vehicle, the driving style, the load being
transported. It is a pilot project, not a research project, aiming to carry out tests of
integration and use in the field, of solutions from the CVIS research project
described above. The FREILOT project has an integration approach with four
stakes:
- energy efficiency at crossroads, giving priority to heavy vehicles (reduction of
the very polluting stop-and-go s);
- the regulation of the acceleration and speed levels thanks to embedded speed
restriction systems;
- assistance to eco-driving, thanks to advanced navigation systems, reducing the
risk of accidents;
- the temporal and spatial management of goods delivery areas.
The project is based on the experimentation in four European towns (Bilbao,
Helmond, Lyon, Krakow), of fixing priorities for heavy vehicles at certain
crossroads - at certain defined times - in addition to the equipment of vehicles with
acceleration and speed limiters. Furthermore, the four metropolises will put a
service for the dynamic reservation of delivery areas at the disposal of the
deliverers, enabling the reduction of time searching for a parking area, and
consequently the risk of congestion. This experimental project therefore corresponds
to a particular instantiation of the generic vision expressed by e-Truck.
ERTICO ITS Europe, which is managing the project, gave itself the objective of
reducing fuel consumption by 25%, and therefore also CO 2 emissions, thus
contributing to the improvement of the quality of the air. If the results of this pilot-
project match expectations, the FREILOT project and the intelligent transport
systems that it deploys, should eventually be extended to other European
metropolises.
6.11.2.4. FIDEUS project
The European project FIDEUS ( Freight Intelligent Delivery of Goods in
European Urban Spaces ) [FID 05], [FID 08] of the 6 th PCRD, has provided a
framework for the study of new urban distribution modes implying a permanent
dialog between on the one hand a logistical base and the truck driver and on the
other hand the driver and city traffic management system.