Stockholm | Älskade stad (“Beloved City”)
Description
The work on Älskade stad (“Beloved City”) has been under way for several years, and is a lasting initiative for a better and more pleasant environment in Stockholm. Stockholm City, Ragn-Sells, Bring and Vasakronan have together created a unique collaboration with the aim of contributing to reducing the impact of traffic in the city centre.
The work on Älskade stad was initiated as far back as 2017 when the then Traffic Commissioner extended an invitation to a workshop with the aim of finding better solutions to the traffic situation in the city centre.
The basis forÄlskade stad is a strategic plan for better delivery traffic in Stockholm in the period 2014-2017. The strategy has four clear goals: More clear-cut delivery times, facilitating delivery vehicles, enabling more green vehicles and increasing cooperation between the city council and other actors in relation to delivery traffic.
EU funds have helped Stockholm City’s work to establish the right conditions to achieve these goals. One concrete example is the first collective distribution centre, which has now been set up in the Zenit garage on Klara Norra Kyrkogata and the cooperation with commercial actors. Ragn-Sells has been involved throughout the entire process and it all came together when a carrier was found in Bring.
The concept is very simple, the freight carriers enter the city with their trucks full and leave it empty. The recycling company Ragn-Sells, enter the city with empty trucks and leave it full. Putting these flows together can save vehicle movements in the city centre.
Stockholm City’s requirements are that the final 10 kilometres inside the city must be electric powered and that there must be a sustainable plan. Älskade stad is consequently not a project but rather something enduring.
Ragn-Sells and Bring are working together to ensure a better environment in Stockholm through the collective distribution centre. Initially it is an electric trailer that will contribute to less traffic, emissions and noise. Bring’s deliveries to the city centre are driven to the collective distribution centre where they are loaded onto the electric trailer, which is supplied by Ragn-Sells. During its delivery round, the electric trailer collects waste and material for recycling to take back. Another partner within Älskade stad is Vasakronan, which is responsible for the collective distribution premises in its capacity as landlord
The work on Älskade stad was initiated as far back as 2017 when the then Traffic Commissioner extended an invitation to a workshop with the aim of finding better solutions to the traffic situation in the city centre.
The basis forÄlskade stad is a strategic plan for better delivery traffic in Stockholm in the period 2014-2017. The strategy has four clear goals: More clear-cut delivery times, facilitating delivery vehicles, enabling more green vehicles and increasing cooperation between the city council and other actors in relation to delivery traffic.
EU funds have helped Stockholm City’s work to establish the right conditions to achieve these goals. One concrete example is the first collective distribution centre, which has now been set up in the Zenit garage on Klara Norra Kyrkogata and the cooperation with commercial actors. Ragn-Sells has been involved throughout the entire process and it all came together when a carrier was found in Bring.
The concept is very simple, the freight carriers enter the city with their trucks full and leave it empty. The recycling company Ragn-Sells, enter the city with empty trucks and leave it full. Putting these flows together can save vehicle movements in the city centre.
Stockholm City’s requirements are that the final 10 kilometres inside the city must be electric powered and that there must be a sustainable plan. Älskade stad is consequently not a project but rather something enduring.
Ragn-Sells and Bring are working together to ensure a better environment in Stockholm through the collective distribution centre. Initially it is an electric trailer that will contribute to less traffic, emissions and noise. Bring’s deliveries to the city centre are driven to the collective distribution centre where they are loaded onto the electric trailer, which is supplied by Ragn-Sells. During its delivery round, the electric trailer collects waste and material for recycling to take back. Another partner within Älskade stad is Vasakronan, which is responsible for the collective distribution premises in its capacity as landlord
Innovation and Relevance
A close collaboration between different parts and parties of the logistics chain can help reducing the amount of trucks entering the city centre. The idea of fully loaded trucks on the city’s streets is not new, but the concept is not found in many places and is hard to achieve due to the trust and sharing of clients which the solutions demands between the participating parties.
Relation to other urban Logistics Projects
Currently no information available.
Plans for Future Development
Stockholm city is no longer a part of the project as the concept was built on the foundation to find a sufficient business model, without the city being a part of it. This way we ensure that the solution is adaptable to different cities with different circumstances. The projects solution has been adapted to the city of Oslo, Norway since 2019.
Some of the project partners are currently looking for new ways of expanding the concept and innovate the process.
Impressions
Fotocredits: © Stockholm Stad
