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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.

Vibrant, colourful and energetic are words commonly associated with London’s urban markets. The market environment is a classic case of low cost flexible space that must respond rapidly to the demand for use of the environment – be that traders’ own operating needs, municipal servicing, parking, vehicle and pedestrian foot traffic.

The urban market delivery and servicing project for the CRP convened Central London Sub Regional Transport Partnership takes a closer look at what makes three of London’s urban markets a success and what operating challenges they face.

This project is a first of its kind and has engaged with Lower Marsh (Lambeth), East Street (Southwark), and Chapel Market (Islington) traders and operators to look at consolidating vehicle movements and enhancing the trading environment environments. The project aims to help street market operators and market traders to take steps to reduce their impact on air quality and achieve wide environmental and public realm outcomes.

A key output of this study is a best practice tool kit which Cross River Partnership is supporting alongside our borough and BID partners.

For more information please contact Jane Overington, Place Making Project Officer, at janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org.

CRP is showcasing London’s best walking initiatives delivered with our partners through a new Promoting Walking best practice guide.

The guide will highlight a range of successful interventions hot-off-the-press from low exposure walking routes and parklets, to public realm improvements and way finding schemes. These are projects that have been delivered through the Clean Air Better Business Programme and the Central London Sub Regional Transport Partnership.

The best practice guide is being delivered with support of the Greater London Authority and Transport for London and is due for release in the spring.

For more information please contact Jane Overington, Place Making Project Officer, at janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org.

On 31^st March CRP’s Vicky Keeble attended the TfL Freight Forum, attended by London boroughs, logistics operators and industry bodies.

The event provided an update from TfL and the Mayors’ Transport Strategy (due for consultation later this year) and discussion on the review of the London Lorry Control Scheme, led by London Councils. The forum also considered how current best practice, like the projects that CRP are delivering with our partners, can be ‘industrialised’ or scaled up to tackle traffic congestion across London. Influencing customer/end user demand was a recurrent theme, as this was seen as being the major limiting factor for logistics operators being able to change their operations and business model. CRP has developed tools aimed at educating businesses and consumers including www.clickcollect.london and New West End Company’s www.westendbuyersclub.london.

For more information on the event, and CRP’s freight work, contact Vicky Keeble vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org

Archives: News Articles

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

Delivery Servicing Planning for Markets

Promoting Walking best practice guide

TfL Freight Forum