Green Your Freight

An encouraging trend toward sustainable and effective freight transportation methods is indicated by the GreenYourFreight project’s implementation, which has produced quantifiable and concrete environmental, socioeconomic, and community-based advantages.

GHG REDUCTION

Significant reductions in a range of pollutants (carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM), volatile organic compounds (VOC), and sulfur dioxide (SO2)) during the Real-Life Demonstration stages (RLD1 and RLD2).

AIR QUALITY
The anticipated decrease in emissions, particularly in the urban areas that the project will service, points to a significant improvement in air quality. During the project’s lifespan, an estimated 8 million people of the project cities are projected to benefit from better air quality; an even higher population—9.5 million city residents—are predicted to experience improved air quality.

EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENTS
The load factor of specific trucks of the project’s consortium partner DELATOLAS will be significantly higher, i.e., 25.8%. The efficiency improvements in freight transportation to be brought about by the project’s implementation are highlighted by this rise.

SOCIOECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS
According to the project’s team economic forecasts, there will be noteworthy contributions to society. For example, the carriers’ group is predicted to earn €4.748.480 on an annual base. The project’s socio-economic advantages are further highlighted by the generation of man-days in existing jobs and the development of new job positions.

RAISING AWARENESS AND INCREASE ENGAGEMENT
Aiming for thousands of entities to be informed and several thousand vehicle users to engage with the mobile app, the project will effectively reach and engage a considerable audience.

EXPANSION AND REACH
Post-project projections indicate that the project’s influence will be significantly amplified, with increased participation from freight distributors, increased use of the GYF mobile applications, and improved service utilization across regions.

Through a variety of technical innovations, the Green Your Freight project pioneers a state-of-the-art, scalable freight logistics platform. The project uses an efficient GYF v.1.0 database and APIs to support the sustainability of last-mile services and reduce their environmental effect. This allows for easy administration and retrieval of data. Real-time monitoring and seamless data flow are ensured by middleware components.

Web and mobile app user interfaces make carriers and shippers more accessible, and platform flexibility is increased by ongoing feature updates.

System efficiency is enhanced using many programming languages and frameworks, optimization techniques, and open-source standards.

The platform will be able to handle heavy daily loads, with simplified user interactions, paving the way for commercial-scale integration.

1. Georgios Saharidis, UTH
2. Filippos Karamanlis, MILITOS
3. Dimitrios Papasotiriou, DELATOLAS
4. Theocharis Pashalidis, KOSMOS TAXI
5. Evdokimos Pashalidis, VOLOS TAXI
6. Elena Grivaki, GRIVAKI
7. Dimosthenis Sotiriadis, MEDITERRA
8. Ioannis Vlachonikoleas, METRO
9. Francesco Fusco, PLASTINDS

Με τη συνεισφορά του προγράμματος LIFE της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης – LIFE22-ENV-EL-LIFE GYF / 101114007 και με τη συγχρηματοδότηση του Πράσινου Ταμείου, Ελλάδα.

Χρηματοδοτείται από την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση. Ωστόσο, οι απόψεις και οι γνώμες που εκφράζονται είναι αποκλειστικά των συγγραφέων και δεν αντικατοπτρίζουν κατ’ ανάγκη τις απόψεις της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης ή του Ευρωπαϊκού Εκτελεστικού Οργανισμού για το Κλίμα, τις Υποδομές και το Περιβάλλον (CINEA). Ούτε η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση ούτε η αρμόδια αρχή χρηματοδότησης φέρουν ευθύνη για αυτές.