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On 10^th May we provided CRP Board Members and other public and private sector partners with first insights into the environmental impacts of electric freight vehicles, analysed as part of the FREVUE project, hosted by the City of London Corporation. Professor John Polak, Head of the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College, presented the findings that include results from the FREVUE project itself (over 80 electric freight vehicles deployed), an extrapolation of these results to model wider uptake levels, and the monetisation of results.

As Professor Polak concludes: “The FREVUE results show the huge opportunity to avoid significant costs associated with air pollution, in a way that is potentially attractive to business and the public sector alike.”

The environmental benefits of electric freight vehicles are significant. With zero tailpipe emissions, these vehicles lead to an absolute reduction in NOx and PMs, the two key pollutants in London. But importantly, they also offer the benefit of high reductions in CO2 emissions. Across the FREVUE project demonstrators, the CO2 emission reduction was on average 45%.

If, by 2021, 10% of the entire London freight fleet were electric, we could therefore save £881 million through reduced health impacts and lower costs to comply with legal obligations.

Full results will be shared at the FREVUE Final Conference on 21 June 2017 at Guildhall, City of London. To register for this event, please see: http://frevue.eu/newsroom/frevue-final-conference-registration-open/

For further information, please contact the FREVUE Coordinator, Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, on tanjadallemuenchmeyer@crossriverpartnership.org.

On 5^th May 2017 the government published the long-awaited new draft Air Quality Plan for consultation. The plan aims at reducing nitrogen dioxide emissions in towns and cities and to thereby improve air quality.

Defra

The consultation is open until 15 June 2017 and responses will feed into the final plan due for publication by 31 July 2017. To respond, please see https://consult.defra.gov.uk/airquality/air-quality-plan-for-tackling-nitrogen-dioxide/.

The UK’s first ever National Clean Air Day will be on Thursday June 15th 2017. The aim of the Day is to help the public avoid and reduce air pollution, and to protect the health of families across the country.

Get involved:

Use parcel collection points close to home and avoid unnecessary deliveries to busy central London streets. Convenient parcel collection points can be found at www.clickcollect.london and promotional materials can be provided to your workplace by contacting CRP’s Air Quality Project Manager Brendon Harper.

Find health advice, ready-made communications materials, a pledge counter and even a virtual reality experience, all free to download at www.cleanairday.org.uk.

Please join CRP and our partners on June 15th and help improve air quality and public health.

CRP has launched deliverBEST, a new online tool and business support programme to help make London’s business deliveries more efficient and improve air quality.

After completing a quick online survey at www.deliverbest.london, businesses instantly receive recommendations relevant to their sector and location. CRP’s team of Business Engagement Officers are then available to discuss a business’ needs, provide implementation insights, help build business cases for change and measure results.

CRP are pleased to be piloting deliverBEST with partners Better Bankside and Victoria BID, and look forward to rolling out the programme with additional partners.

The deliverBEST online tool has been developed trough CRP’s Mayor’s Air Quality Fund-supported Clean Air Better Business programme and European Regional Development Fund-supported programme, FreightTAILS. Support to many business is free thanks to funding from the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund, Defra’s Air Quality Grant and CRP’s BID partners.

For more information please contact CRP’s Air Quality Project Manager Brendon Harper.

Through the Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership (CLSRTP), Cross River Partnership (CRP) has delivered an innovative project to promote walking in Southwark.

CRP, the London Borough of Southwark, Southwark Living Streets, and the Newington Estate Residents Association have worked together to design and install a colourful, dynamic lighting scheme at the Steadman Street entrance of the Newington Estate. This project builds on CRP’s pioneering work using lighting to overcome railway viaduct barriers to walking and movement, the Light at the End of the Tunnel.

This new lighting scheme is part of a broader initiative in the area called Walk Elephant and is designed to enliven the space and to promote walking. The lighting scheme has been designed to encourage walking between bus connections on Walworth Road and Kennington tube station. CRP is using Transport for London’s Healthy Streets checklist to measure the impact of the intervention and to gauge qualitative feedback.

The lighting is now switched on and ready for everyone to experience!

For more information please get in touch with Jane Overington, CRP’s Place Making Project Officer at janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org

Last week we were very pleased to be joined by representatives of CRP members Westminster City Council, London Borough of Southwark, City of London Corporation and Transport for London at our Freight TAILS network meeting in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Attendees explored the freight- focussed topics of micro-consolidation, e-cargo bikes, waste, and HORECA (hotels, restaurants, and catering); led by our network experts Ian Wainwright and Philip Stein.

The network also considered our progress at this mid-point in the project. We were joined by funder representatives who were impressed with the detailed discussions and focus of the network.

Freight TAILS is a network of 10 European cities focused on improving the impact of urban freight transport. Please contact Charlotte Knell, CRP Project Manager for more details: charlotteknell@crossriverpartnership.org.

Freight TAILS is co-funded by ERDF through the URBACT III programme.

Cross River Partnership developed the West End Buyers Club for New West End Company and we’re thrilled that some of our other partners are also going to promote the scheme, so that we can really make a difference to the volume of freight traffic across a wider area of London’s West End. New West End Company are teaming up with Baker Street Quarter Partnership and Marble Arch London for a collaborative launch event next month to promote the Buyers Club to all their business members. The West End Buyers Club is a shared supplier scheme that encourages business neighbours to use the same suppliers, so that all of their deliveries can come to the area in one trip. For information visit www.westendbuyersclub.london

In addition, the West End Buyers Club will be promoted through the Westminster City Council-led Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood. More information on the Low Emission Neighbourhood can be found here: http://www.marylebonelen.org/

For information on these projects contact CRP’s Vicky Keeble vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP’s two main areas of work Recruit London – supporting residents into sustained employment; and Deliver London – improving air quality, transport and public realm; may seem like two quite discreet areas of work. However, we know that our programmes are very much aligned and our teams work closely together to add value to ensure that we are ‘Delivering London’s Future Together’. We all want London to be the best place it can be, and both programmes are working with many of the same funders, businesses and stakeholders to achieve this.

Projects such as our Family Friendly Employment Toolkit meet the objectives of multiple stakeholders that are encouraging workplaces to be more flexible including boroughs wanting to open up work opportunities to a wider candidate base, and Transport for London who want people to start work at different times of day to ease pressures on the transport network at peak times.

The Recruit London team have been out in force to support the Deliver London team on Clean Air Action Fortnight’s Anti Idling Days in early 2016. This gave an opportunity for Recruit London candidates to volunteer for a couple of hours, learn about a new topic, improve confidence and develop new engagement skills.

We’re continuing to collaborate and identify more overlap between the two areas, for the benefit of CRP partners. For more information on the shared goals and working practices of Recruit London and Deliver London contact Anna Elliot annaelliot@crossriverpartnership.org and Vicky Keeble vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP has been busy throughout February and March 2017 surveying close to 300 businesses in the Oxford Street West District (OSW) on movement of freight. Combined with observation studies undertaken earlier in the year, the research forms the basis of its OSW Delivery and Servicing Study. The work is supported by the New West End Company, Transport for London and Westminster City Council and attempts to:

Identify opportunities for improved efficiencies in deliveries and servicing using both tried and tested, and innovative, solutions
Begin dialogue with local businesses on the impacts of their deliveries and servicing

Preliminary results are in and a number of key recommendations are being developed around the categories of: technology, policy change, streetscape improvement and education – each aimed at ensuring the on-going global competiveness of the OSW area.

For further information please contact CRP’s vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP is very excited to start our new Innovate UK co-funded Smart Electric Urban Logistics (SEUL) project together with UPS and UK Power Networks.

UPS vehicle

As the evidence from our FREVUE project (www.frevue.eu) shows, the fully electric trucks UPS currently deploy are well integrated into their fleet and daily operations. UPS now deploy a total of 52 of these vehicles in London but electricity grid infrastructure constraints mean that further expansion of this electric fleet is not possible.

The new Smart Electric Urban Logistics project will build on this knowledge and deploy 20 additional fully electric trucks from UPS’s Camden depot, but also explore a smart charging alternative to costly and disruptive electricity grid infrastructure upgrades.

SEUL is a 2-year project that commenced on 1 April 2017. We look forward to sharing findings and developments with you as we go along.

For more information, please follow us on twitter @SmartElectricUL or contact: tanjadallemuenchmeyer@crossriverpartnership.org.

Archives: News Articles

FREVUE Round Table on Environmental Impacts

New National Air Quality Plan

UK National Clean Air Day, 15 June 2017

CRP Launches deliverBEST

Lighting scheme to promote walking in Southwark switches on!

Freight TAILS in Maastricht

West End Buyers Club

Deliver London / Recruit London Collaboration

Oxford Street West Research

Smart Electric Urban Logistics