Urban Logistics Innovation Day – Final Conference of URBANE
Conference
Image from Polis Network by Raffaele Vergnani
Urban logistics faces challenges such as traffic congestion, limited space for loading and unloading, and growing environmental concerns due to emissions from delivery vehicles. The rapid growth of e-commerce has added more pressure on last-mile delivery systems to be faster, more efficient, and sustainable within already strained urban infrastructures.
The third edition of the Urban Logistics Innovation Day will address these challenges and explore solutions shaping the future of urban freight. This year’s event will take place in Barcelona on Thursday 6 November 2025, hosted by Area Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) and co-organised by POLIS, ETP-ALICE, INLECOM and EIT Urban Mobility.
The event takes place back-to-back with the Smart City Expo / Tomorrow Mobility (4–6 November), also in Barcelona.
This year event also serves as the Final Conference of the URBANE project, marking over 3 and a half years of work testing and validating new tools, governance models, and smart logistics solutions that support zero-emission urban freight, promoting collaborative approaches and data-driven strategies to reduce emissions and improve urban freight flows.
Participants will gain insights into URBANE’s key findings, learnings and outcomes of local pilot actions, and highlight the most promising solutions for replication. It will also open a space for public and private stakeholders, policymakers, researchers, and urban mobility practitioners to reflect upon policy, innovation, and investment pathways that can drive the uptake of sustainable last-mile delivery systems across Europe.
Register for the final event here.
View the event agenda here.
Author: Raffaele Vergnani
