GOODS TRANSPORT ON CITIES * France - Debate

*Paris - Report: "Logistics remains the poor relation of debates and public policies in metropolises"

... A report which advocates a better take into account the transport of goods in debates on the city... The observation that "Logistics remains the poor relation of debates and public policies in metropolises"... "particularly deregulated forms of work, such as the explosion of couriers self-entrepreneurs working for digital platforms"... Individual small businesses or very small SMEs now transporting "80 % of all shipments delivered to the city for hire or reward" ... In Paris, for example, the average distance between warehouses where deliverers get their supplies and the center has almost tripled since 1970, going from 6 to 16 km, the report says... In order to remedy all these evils, the authors issue 8 proposals for action to be declared at the national level, that is to say, central administrations and / or local and regional authorities... Terra Nova recommends to give a price signal to traffic on urban motorways, via "the implementation of the ecotax for urban motorways especially in Ile-de-France, including the exemption of Euro 6 vehicles and clean vehicles "... 
Paris, France - ACTU Transport-Logistique - 29 June 2017