Bergen

Bergen is the second biggest city of Norway and the Greater Bergen region serves as a major trade node of the Western coast of Norway. Located next to the North Sea, the city has a long-time tradition for maritime industries and trade by sea. Today, both the main port and the railroad terminal are in the city centre, serving goods delivery directly into the city centre and its hinterland. The city is today a subject of the modern trend of transforming urban industrial zones into residential and recreational areas, pushing logistic facilities towards the hinterland.

Previously one of the most compact cities of Norway, the release of car sales to private house holdings changed the terms for the city’s urban development leading to an urban sprawl. Since 2011 Bergen has boosted its effort to create a compact nodal city, with the help of the light rail system that has proved to be a major success in terms of replacing car traffic.

Bergen is a Satellite city within ULaaDS.

As of today, The City of Bergen does not have a sustainable urban mobility plan nor a sustainable urban logistics plan. One of the goals of participating in ULaaDS is to address the need of a SUMP and SULP, and start the planning process.

Both the Port of Bergen and major logistic companies are moving out of the city centre in the coming years. Hence The Agency of Urban Environment in the city, along with port and railroad authorities and the actors of logistics in the city has recently started collaboration processes towards addressing the issues at hand regarding logistics in the city.

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