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Project activities

As the project develops, it aims to reach a number of targets created to work as milestones for the project and contributing to the goals of producing results and spreading knowledge between internal and external actors.

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Planned activities

Examining the operation of logistics stakeholders and their potential needs

  • Summarize insights from other projects regarding logistics stakeholders’ needs
  • Develop a common interview guide
  • Establish contact with logistics stakeholders
  • Interview logistics stakeholders regarding current state and potential deployment of electric commercial vehicles
  • Summary of the necessary prerequisites for deployment expressed bylogistics stakeholders

     

Mapping and analyzing power and energy requirements

  • Mapping logistics entities in the participating city and regions based onthe outcome from the inverviews and findings from other projects
  • Additional interviews with relevant stakeholders, e.g., local energy companies
  • Initiate analysis of potential requirements for energy and power at relevant sites
  • Initiate exploration of potential solutions for supplying energy to the logistics entities and public charging spots, such as load balancing
  • Summary of power and energy requirements from each use case

     

Demand for new services attributed to electrified logistics

  • Exploring potential emerging services provided by private and/or public actors to support the transition towards electrified logistics such as:
    • Public charging infrastructure
    • Booking services for charging
    • Digital platform for sharing public charging infrastructure
    • Other services
  • Supporting charging infrastructure with renewable local energy, energy storage and other means to increase resilience and ensuring supply
  • Conducting workshop with relevant stakeholders based on insights from data gathering

     

Governance: the role of public actors in supporting the electric transition in logistics

Based on the insights gathered from logistics stakeholders and from the workshop in activity 3:

  • Exploring the role of public authorities and organizations in supporting the logistics sector by interviewing public partners and summarize insights from other projects and initiatives
  • Workshop with relevant stakeholders to discuss the role of public actors
  • Conducting a guideline regarding the most desired measures for supporting the electric transition

Communication and dissemination

  • Communication plan to create an active dialogue between public and industry/logistics stakeholders
  • Dissemination of the action plan through relevant networks such as EIT Urban Mobility and ALICE
  • Knowledge sharing with other relevant projects such as SCALE
  • Final conference disseminating the final results of the project