17 November 2023

08:45 – 09:30

Amphithéâtre Say

Adeline Heitz

Adeline Heitz is a lecturer in urban planning and geography at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) and a researcher at LIRSA. Her research focuses on the productive city, the geography of production areas, logistics urban planning and public policies related to mobility. After graduating in law and geography, she obtained a master’s degree in urban planning and development at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne. She then obtained a PhD in urban planning and geography at the Université Gustave Eiffel (formerly IFSTTAR-Université Paris-Est) on “-Métropole Logistique-: structures urbaines et enjeux d’aménagement. Logistics dualization in the Paris metropolis”.
Now co-director of the Master d’urbanisme at the Cnam.

Conference: Urban logistics, a lever for the energy transition?

Urban logistics is defined as the organization of goods flows in cities to make the last mile as cost√ªefficient as possible and reduce its impact on the environment. Seeking to improve air quality, reduce pollution and rebalance the sharing of public space between modes and uses, public authorities are introducing regulations that increasingly constrain urban distribution. Examples include Low Emission Zones (ZFE), which limit the circulation of the most polluting thermal vehicles, Zero Net Artificialization (ZAN), which limits the construction of warehouses in peri-urban areas and imposes a logic of real estate development in dense zones, and the AGIEC law “-anti-waste for a circular economy-“, which will have an impact on the flow of returned goods. The last kilometer is therefore becoming a fundamental issue for private players such as transporters and logisticians, but also for public players such as local authorities and their residents. One of the levers on which public and private players are currently attempting to act is that of transport, by encouraging modal shift, either towards “clean” vehicles (electric, hydrogen, gas), or alternative vehicles such as waterways or bicycles. While the issue of modal shift is often reduced to that of energy, which is certainly a major challenge today, it also requires us to look more broadly at practices linked to the mobility of goods and the forms of the city.