CityChangerCargoBike

Project Information

CityChangerCargoBike

Grant agreement ID: 769086

DOI

10.3030/769086

Project closed

EC signature date 8 June 2018

Start date 1 September 2018

End date 31 July 2022

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport

Total cost

€ 3 950 448,09

EU contribution

€ 3 808 645,63

Coordinated by

GEMEENTE UTRECHT
Netherlands

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - CityChangerCargoBike (CityChangerCargoBike)

Reporting period: 2020-03-01 to 2022-07-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The world’s cities are facing a complex set of challenges related to urban mobility, which are predicted to worsen as there will be a growth in population and the volume of traffic caused by commercial delivery services and private trips increases. Previous projects (CycleLogistics and CycleLogistics Ahead) have demonstrated that cargo bikes have a huge potential to tackle these challenges as they can improve the image and general levels of cycling, replace at least 51 % of urban trips associated with the transport of goods as well as enhance air quality, safety levels, and liveability of urban areas. At the start of this project however, this innovative solution was not fully deployed in any European cities.
Building on the success of these previous projects, City Changer Cargo Bike (CCCB) exploited the limitless potential of cargo bikes promoting their usage amongst public, private, and commercial users. Supported by the Horizon2020 programme, CCCB united 20 (22) partners including cities, research institutes, NGOs, and industries from all over Europe in the quest to achieve a faster, more cost-effective, and larger scale deployment of this sustainable mobility option. Assessing best practices across Europe, CCCB will raise awareness and support the uptake of cargo bikes and cargo bike initiatives. In doing so, the project will foster exciting developments that, - among other things - offer more sustainable logistics operations, improve public spaces, engage citizens, and reduce traffic congestion.
Main Objectives and Expected Results
o Increased awareness amongst public, private and commercial stakeholders
o The utilization of innovative tools for the take-up, scale-up, and transfer between forerunner and follower cities.
o The establishment of favourable framework conditions for cargo bike use.
o A wide roll-out and transferability through Forerunner cities, Follower cities (within the consortium) and External follower cities.
o Reduced congestion, emissions; increased safety; improved public space and its usage.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Awareness Raising & Capacity Building
o Ten guides books for different target groups to raise awareness about and promote the use of cargo bikes

Take-up & Scale-up
- First cargo bike Funding Scheme introduced in Gdynia
- White label cargo bike hub in the city of Prague
- Prototype cargo bike parking racks in Strasbourg
- City-wide cargo bike campaign in Graz
- Micro Hub for cyclelogistics opens in Berlin
- Free cargo bike rental service in Rimini
- 5 European Market Size Surveys (two for operators, three for manufacturers ECLF/CIE
- European Expert Group on Cargo bikes in Brussels ECLF/CIE
- Nation-wide funding for cargo bikes in Greece Drama
- Input to EU Type Approval Process ECLF/CIE
- Contributions to Cargo Bike standardisation procedures on national and EU-level ECLF/CIE
- Overview Tax incentives and purchase premiums for cycling in Europe ECF
- Cargo Bike Rental scheme involves Red Cross in Varna
- 30 e-Cargo Bikes for the City of Cambridge
- Smart Lockers and Zero-Emission distribution in Mechelen
- 2nd Cargo bike Funding Scheme in Lisbon
- Cargo bikes promoted on local Television in Dubrovnik
- Cargo bike sharing scheme for kindergartens and NGOs in Oslo
- Workshops and extended try-outs for schools and kindergartens in San Sebastian
- New cargo bike parking facility in and start of conversion of bus station into cargo bike hub for last mile logistics Vitoria Gasteiz
- Establishment of cargo bike hub in Lecce
- 100 public cargo bikes for Utrecht
Evaluation & Recommendation for exhaustive EU-wide roll-out
o 7 partner cities have carried out traffic counting to provide data for simulations: Krakow, San Sebastian, Vitoria Gasteiz, Mechelen, Lisbon, Rimini and Dubrovnik. Results of these simulations are published in scientific paper and will be made available to a broader public on the projects (social) media.
o 8 scientific publications (conference papers, a book chapter, and scientific articles) based on modelling and simulations
Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation
● With 101 Webinars held
● Cargo bike Academy Channel established in Germany
● 28 Video Clips were produced
● Local Heroes: so far 189 Local Heroes in 166 cities
● CIVITAS e-learning course
● 3-hour high-level webinar with local government and business owners on the business use-case for cargo bikes.
● 232press articles among them, most notably a publication in the New York times and BBC

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

City Changer Cargo Bike (CCCB) builds on the limitless potential of cargo bikes, promoting their usage among public, private, and commercial users.
The high level of participation of cities in the project, as well as their incredible implementation successes shows that these cities have truly understood that cargo bikes are the fastest, most cost-effective mobility option for all cities ready to drive urban transition towards a sustainable Future!
CCCB has been a major driver in raising awareness on the potential and advantages of cargo bikes over the last years and in supporting the cargo bike sector to develop from a niche market into a widely accepted alternative to fossil fuel transport options and are now acknowledged as a serious transport more for businesses and are shaping the future of green urban mobility.

CityChangerCargoBike has used ambitious, innovative, and effective dissemination methods. With cargo bikes themselves as central tool of many dissemination activities in road shows, training on the move and for crowd motivation.
Peer-to-peer communication has be taken to a new level involving decision makers, city officers and cargo professionals from varying contexts and backgrounds with the aid of tools like the media bike and “local heroes and champions”. Through these measures it was possible to reach mayors from 37 external cities and establish 166 local heroes – cargo bike ambassadors – in 44 follower cities.
A further ambition of CityChangerCargoBike is to make the project content as sustainable as possible and to assure long-term integration with the innovative dissemination methods. The determination of suitable funding systems and their pilots (in analogy to micro credits, leasing models, etc.) will assure sustainability or new small cargo bike start-ups after the end of the project and will induce a snowball effect of microcredit-like funding.
The early socialization and awareness raising efforts were realised in 88 workshops and 100+ webinars reaching over 20.000 participants from different target groups including kindergartens, schools, professionals and experts.
After carrying out the CCCB Manufacturers and Operators surveys (2020-2022) we were able to assess the scale and impact of cyclelogstics as a multibillion-euro segment of the cycling market. Survey results suggest that there will be around 400.000 – 500.000 cargo bikes sold in 2022 in Europe. Just using the commercial bikes sold in our survey, that generates a market of €400 M revenues, an employment of 28.000 people, total travel of 250 M of km, and 50.000 tons of CO2 saved per year. This is a major economic opportunity for Europe. The fast growth of new jobs, new investments and level of revenues suggests that new players will soon join the sector to make it even bigger and more relevant.

Expresso Cargo bike

Zedify - cycle logistics

Family Bike

Cargo bikes as street furniture

Cargo bikes in Winter