Zaragoza

The City

With an estimated population of 675,301 in the city and 741,000 in the metropolitan area*, Zaragoza spans 971.24 sq km, making it ideal for piloting projects that enhance urban logistics efficiency and sustainability. The city’s Urban Mobility Plan (PMUS) and citizen-led initiatives like Open Urban Lab provide a strong foundation for innovation and community involvement.

*Source: World Population Review, 2024

How Zaragoza’s Pilot
Is Making an Impact

1. A better regulation of public parking space dedicated to deliveries.

1. Reduces congestion and improves space allocation for deliveries.

2. Enhances coordination between operators, optimizing urban space use and prevents overcrowding in delivery zones.

3. Studies the impact of innovative parking management strategies.

2. A better organization of last mile deliveries around public markets

1. Redesigning logistics around markets to promote sustainable deliveries and a better allocation of public space.

2. Facilitates load-sharing between operators, decreasing the number of delivery vehicles.

3. Reduces delivery time and vehicle congestion near markets.

Current Pilots and Simulations
in Zaragoza

Zaragoza’s Urban Living Lab (ULL) will test new urban logistics approaches through simulations and a small-scale real-world testing for both B2C and B2B services. The focus will be on route optimization, local and regional market consolidation, network balancing, and smart management of loading bays.

Zaragoza’s pilot is investigating:

Local Market Consolidation and Cross-Docking: Optimization of Zaragoza shipments for both logistics operators, featuring real-time pickups and consolidating daily deliveries into a single unit for multiple postal codes. It will also examine cargo exchanges between operator (Correos and Correos Express) to enhance logisitcs efficiency in the city cente

Network Balancing (Virtual Load Exchange): Balancing logistics by reallocating tasks between vehicles of the same operator or transferring loads between operators to ensure deliveries. This functionality will be tested in a simulation.

Regional Market Consolidation: Evaluating the feasibility of consolidating the regional outbound market to streamline connections between central markets and small retailers by Correos, in order to reduce the peak-hour traffic around the Mercado Central de Zaragoza.

Smart Management for Loading Bays: Conducting a study to improve the management of loading and unloading bays in Zaragoza, including the optimization of parking areas at strategic locations across the city.