DISCO x UNCHAIN Webinar: Curbside management and efficient deliveries
How can cities better manage limited curb space while enabling cleaner and more efficient deliveries?
As cities grow while curb space remains limited, innovative curb management strategies are needed to ensure efficient deliveries.
This webinar connects two innovative Living Labs from the DISCO and UNCHAIN projects to showcase complementary approaches to digital urban freight management. Padua presents its dynamic curbside management and booking system, linked to an Urban Freight Data Space, turning loading zones into smart, data-driven assets. Berlin showcases its Loading & Unloading Tool and cargo bike routing solutions, supporting efficient operations and zero-emission last-mile logistics.
Together, the two Living Labs illustrate how cities can move from static regulation to integrated, data-driven freight ecosystems, linking governance, infrastructure management and sustainable logistics operations. We will explore how digital curbside tools, freight data spaces and smart routing solutions can jointly contribute to more efficient, resilient and climate-friendly urban freight systems.
Speakers include Luca Braidoti (DISCO Padua Living Lab - Venice International University), Julie Martinet (UNCHAIN Berlin Living Lab - Senate Department for Urban Mobility, Transport, Climate Action and the Environment of Berlin) and Lory Tavasszy (Professor Freight Transport & Logistics at the Delft University of Technology).
The session will include a presentation of each Living Lab, followed by a Panel discussion. The whole meeting will be moderated by Katy Huaylla (Rupprecht Consult).
Key information
- Date: 16 April 2026
- Time: 11.00 – 12:30
- Place: Online (Zoom)
About UNCHAIN and DISCO
UNCHAIN is a Horizon Europe project aiming to empower sustainable urban logistics. It has been transforming urban freight with cutting-edge technology and collaborative solutions, breaking data barriers and enabling seamless cooperation between public authorities and logistics stakeholders.
The DISCO project focuses on interconnected urban freight organisation and city planning, through data sharing and digitalization, based on a Physical Internet (PI) approach. DISCO will develop a federated European urban freight platform, for safe and smart voluntary data sharing on urban logistics and its urban space use.