CoDe ZERO: development of a Co-Designed ZERO-carbon urban freight system

This report presents the results of CoDe ZERO, a six-month project funded by the Decarbon8 network through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The aim of the project was to understand challenges and opportunities of freight decarbonisation in urban areas in the North of England, considering the perspective of key freight stakeholders based in the North. The project was led by Dr Daniela Paddeu (Centre for Transport and Society at the University of the West of England, Bristol), who designed and ran the project in collaboration with Transport for the North (TfN) and Dr Paulus Aditjandra (University of Newcastle upon Tyne). The main output of the project is a co-designed roadmap with a series of solutions to achieve urban freight decarbonisation by 2040. Findings show that stakeholders understand the importance of decarbonising urban freight to achieve the net zero target by 2050 (or even sooner) but believe there are a series of challenges, mainly related to the development of efficient cleaner technological solutions and to behaviour/organisational change.