Zero Emission off-peak Urban deliverieS (ZEUS)

Co-financed project: EU KIC EIT Urban Mobility 90 % funding, ECO2 10 % funding
Researcher: Siddharth Venkataraman, duration 2 years
Start: 2019

The project is aiming at deploying a concept for silent and emission free city deliveries providing a more liveable, cleaner, and safer urban space. ZEUS aims to demonstrate the benefit of shifting high volume retail deliveries in cities from peak hours to off-peak time. Anticipated testing will demonstrate that optimizations are possible to reach stakeholders’ (e.g. city, citizens, retailers and logistic companies) expectations. For this purpose, a datadriven, in principle real-time, traffic noise monitoring and mapping methodology is being developed taking into account several categories of vehicles, in order to assess the impact of a range of different traffic scenarios, including the nighttime deliveries.