As cities work to create cleaner, healthier and more liveable urban environments, access to space is becoming a critical issue for urban logistics. Freight competes for increasingly scarce and expensive land and kerb space, while cities continue to depend on efficient deliveries and services to support residents, businesses and economic activity.
The webinar Strengthening Space for Freight: How cities and businesses can protect, preserve, and integrate land for urban logistics, held on 2 September 2026, brought together cities, logistics stakeholders and solution providers to explore how urban space can be better planned, protected, shared and managed for freight. Organised by C40 Cities and ALICE as part of the ALICE Multifunctional Urban Space Community and the NEXTLOGIC project, the session presented practical approaches from the City of Paris, City of Oslo, Weelo and Parkunload.
Opening the webinar, Joshua West (C40 Cities) framed the challenge around the growing competition for urban space and the need to ensure that freight is integrated into cities’ wider sustainability and mobility objectives. The objective was not simply to discuss how to create more space for logistics, but how cities and businesses can coordinate actions to preserve strategically important locations, make existing space more multifunctional and support the transition towards efficient and zero-emission urban freight. (....)