It must simplify and harmonize regulations

Yet, the problem of freight in urban areas is not a new science, the first scientific work dating from the beginning of the 1990s. According to Jean Thévenon, responsible for projects to the Certu, was not even an idea of the number of deliveries in a built-up area. It took expected heavy surveys of Bordeaux, Marseille and Dijon in 1994-1995 for knowledge to be effective a delivery/removal by employment and a week on average. Of course, according to activities, the number varies greatly: 10 deliveries pharmacy but barely 0.1 in pure tertiary. This result, regularly confirmed since, contributed strongly to the awareness of the problem.

Today, awareness of the issue of a sustainable system of deliveries on the economic, sociological and environmental plan is real. Nevertheless, one of the disadvantages is the lack of culture goods both technicians of agglomeration in the elect. Gradually, they are developing the necessary skills: training, publications, seminars, days of action saw the day. The first "national day of the goods in the city", in June 2005 in Paris, was a success. The second will be held in Lyon on June 29 and the city of home for the day 2007 is already approached.

To change the status of delivery areas "professionalizing them".

The loi SRU (solidarity and urban renewal) of 2000 pressed the nail pointing issues and the need for harmonization of schedules or templates. In the aftermath, communities have established their diagnosis. Complicated exercise: in Lyon, the 53 communes of the urban community acted in dispersed order. An agglomeration even discovered a theoretically unreachable industrial zone to heavy goods vehicles, all road access them is prohibited.

Another new fact, reflection on the place of the heavy weight in the city. Paris to Lyon, this translates the desire of professionalizing delivery areas. To Paris, the areas "lincoln" or "semi-Lincoln" are sanctuarised of the fact that one can achieve only by borrowing the bus corridors. Jean Thévenon, "are the most used and the most available areas".

Delivery City: simplify and harmonise the regulatory

The tracks of progress are multiple. "It must simplify and harmonize regulations." In Paris, it varies according to three levels of surface truck and four slots. It is much too. Should be simplified and specialized areas of delivery available to professionals from specific (leave for 30 minutes, mandatory button, etc.) ", explains Jean Thévenon.

Lyon reflects on this type of solution. "In any case, if he is out of the question to ban access to tractors, Paris is moving towards strict adherence to delivery schedules, the intervention of trained personnel, the introduction of quieter and cleaner, material the use of the Seine, in a Charter negotiated between all partners. "We have no choice: in addition to the inflation of prices for delivery, turnover growing delivery drivers indicates the degree of urgency", insists Jean Thévenon. Hence the interest of the initiatives - "The little Queen" (tricycle with electrical assistance for the delivery of small packages) to Paris or "Points of home vehicles" (operation ELP in Bordeaux) where a "fielder"-, that test new organizations.