ICLEI, South Asia

Urban Freight Baseline and Action Plan for Panaji

The project involves collecting primary and secondary data to establish a baseline for urban freight and logistics-related emissions in Panaji, Goa, India. This study is being undertaken as a part of the global Eco-Logistics project. The study established current freight demand in terms of total freight trips, total kg-km, and total trips by freight mode, commodity, and link. The links in the freight chain were to the wholesaler, wholesaler to retailer, retailer to home, and home to waste. The findings have been presented both for end-to-end journey of freight i.e., including distance covered outside city boundary, and also only for distance covered within the city boundary. Also, as a part of this project collected data was analyzed to suggest interventions that can be taken up as a pilot project and to propose a low-carbon urban freight action plan. Activities performed as a part of this study include primary data collection, data analysis, framing of recommendations/interventions, and development of an intervention action plan.