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2.2.8 Development of a collaborative platform in the logistics field.
Luxembourg is geographically positioned to play a key role in the establishment of an EU-wide
digital, automated, and GPS-guided Transportation and Logistics Internet. To this end,
Luxembourg can play a key role in helping create a collaborative network among operators in
Luxembourg and neighboring countries to begin sharing a common logistics space (fourth pillar
of the Mobility Internet) that could reach the ports of Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as
the main logistic hubs in France and Germany. Cooperation can be implemented at two levels:
Short-distance logistics collaboration (for city center delivery grouping) and Long-distance
logistics collaboration for continental transport.
Attention should be placed on the separation of the International flows (88.2% of the total flow
– Eurostat 2016) from the national and urban flows. The latter, in particular, require the
implementation of a City Logistics process for optimizing the logistics and transport activities in
urban areas in order to reduce the number of vehicles on the streets by using appropriate
vehicles in terms of size and sustainable motorization (e.g. electric cargo-bikes), implementing
reverse logistics, optimizing the load factor, and defining appropriate time bands available for
the drop off and pick up operation outside the commuting hours.
Multimodality plays a central role in the development of a “transport-as-a-service” common
platform. This concept stands as a turning point in the logistics field, where private vehicles and
private management of logistics chains become increasingly abandoned for a multimodal
flexible travel capacity and collaborative networks. Multimodality should be highly promoted,
with the creation of the multimodal logistics platform in Bettembourg. Efficiency gains will also
be achieved through optimized use of passenger transportation means. Such a flexible solution,
hosted on a transports-as-a-service single-entry platform will be managed through
collaborative networks with the prerequisite to unify regulations, standards and services.
2.3 Financial
2.3.1 Subsidize public transport modes.
Since the benefits stemming from sustainable mobility benefit the whole of society, the
government should play a key role in incentivizing the transformation into a Third Industrial
Revolution transportation and logistics network. The budget for subsidizing public transport
services can be derived from fiscal policies addressed to tax the externalities produced by nonsustainable
transport systems (space occupancy, pollutions, and GHG emission).
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