On 11-12 June 2025, the workshop “Navigating the Last Mile: Innovation in Zero Emissions Urban Freight” convened logistics stakeholders from across Europe at the POLIS offices in Brussels. The event is co-organised by POLIS and the Brussels green deal for low emission logistics and supported by ALICE and the URBANE City Platform by URBANE project.
As part of the programme, the DISCO project was presented by Dries Van Bever (imec) on 11 June. His intervention focused on the Ghent Living Lab and the development of a data-driven Urban Access Control (UAC) solution designed to improve the integration of vehicle access regulations in logistics planning systems.
A collaborative approach to access management
DISCO aims to accelerate the decarbonisation of urban freight by enabling digital collaboration between public authorities, logistics operators, and technology providers. The Ghent use case demonstrated how data spaces technologies can facilitate this process. Through a decentralised data-sharing model, access regulations (e.g., low emission zones, time windows, school streets) from the City of Ghent are digitised and integrated into planning software used by logistics providers. (....)