Planning of urban freight innovation ecosystems: analysing two cities incentives

The climate crisis has given local authorities an enhanced role to achieve net zero. In this context, the transport sector is seen as a key player as it’s hard to decarbonise, especially in the case of urban freight transport as there is a lack of planning frameworks to do so. We look into the literature dealing with freight innovation ecosystems, using a systematic literature review methodology, and formulate a framework of incentives based on those directed at improving the public sector capabilities, those directed at ecosystem actors and those that enhance city conditions to innovate. We then apply the framework to two case studies to strengthen the framework with empirical knowledge.