The desire for a quiet life: the future of urban freight deliveries

The DfT’s Quiet Deliveries Demonstration Scheme aims to formulate and disseminate best practice on how councils and the freight industry can ensure that goods are delivered to retailers outside normal business hours whilst minimising the noise nuisance for residents.

Rik Thomas

14 May 2010

TTR is looking to set up six "quiet delivery" trial schemes to see how well the concept can work in a range of situations, with the trial participants remaining anonymous for the time being to see whether local residents notice what is happening!

Chris Douglas, the TTR director who is manager of the Quiet Deliveries Demonstration Scheme, sees the LTP3 process as a golden opportunity for local authorities to "get" what the needs of the freight industry are

The DfT-Backed Quiet Deliveries Demonstration Scheme, which was launched in January, has a very simple aim: to test whether many of the current restrictions on HGV (heavy goods vehicle) deliveries outside of normal business hours are, in fact, necessary. Can allowing HGVs to deliver to major retailers at night and during weekends, which would have many obvious benefits from the haulier’s point of view and may also reduce congestion and vehicle emissions, be achieved without significant...