The SELECT project gathers local and regional authorities together with business support organizations from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. The partners will work to explore prerequisites for supplying electric light and heavy-duty fleets with sufficient power and energy at logistics terminals and public locations, and to explore potential new services enabled by digital solutions, and governance structures needed to support the transition.
The overall objective is to showcase a framework for interaction between local and regional public authorities and logistics stakeholders to accelerate the electrification of commercial logistics fleets and adopt digital solutions for sharing charging infrastructure serving as best practice to other authorities in the NSR.
The partnership will gather information via interviews and data analysis regarding the local logistics stakeholders, the logistics flows, and inputs from local energy companies to initiate an analysis of the potential energy and power need, attributed to supplying electric vehicles with energy. The input from the interviews will also be the basis for understanding potential new services and need for governance.
To understand how the local and regional authorities can support the logistics sector in transitioning to electric vehicles, a dialogue on local and transnational level is needed to establish efficient knowledge transfer, data & information sharing, comparability of regions & user needs oriented recommendations. Cooperation between the actors showcased by the participants of SELECT and constructing initial analyses based on the outcome is expected to act as a best practice to be utilized by other local and regional authorities in the NSR region. A plan for utilisation will be developed in the project.
The experiences of conducting project activities will be gathered in an action plan with recommendations for local and regional authorities in terms of interacting with the logistics sector. The aim is that the results from the SELECT project will be further developed into a larger project.
The project is funded by the Interreg North Sea Region.
Project partners
Provincie Noord-Brabant, Logistik Initiative Hamburg, Region Hovedstaden, Stad Mechelen, and Lindholmen Science Park