Terrassa City Council will launch a mobile application to optimize the use of loading and unloading areas
During this 2024, Terrassa City Council will launch a mobile application that will allow goods transport professionals to better manage parking in the DUM (Urban Distribution of Goods) areas of the city. This initiative has been agreed with the Transport and Logistics Guild, which brings together more than 250 associates in Terrassa.
The application will make it easier for users to access the DUM zones with their mobile phone, without the need to use the parking meter. In addition, it will allow them to keep track of their activity, among other advantages. The aim is to make the use of loading and unloading areas on public roads more agile and efficient, and to improve coexistence between transport vehicles and other modes of mobility.
Terrassa City Council is inspired by other municipal experiences
The Councilor for Territory, Xavier Cardona, explained that the Terrassa City Council has taken into account other municipal experiences that have implemented similar applications, and that they have been working for months to develop this tool, which will complement the changes in vertical signage in the areas of loading and unloading that were promoted during the previous mandate. According to Cardona, this is a measure to “ensure that professionals work with maximum ease and agility, while improving coexistence between these vehicles and other modes of mobility”.
The Transport and Logistics Guild values the proposal positively
The president of the Guild, Antonio Martínez, has stated that the collective has received the proposal “with interest”, and considers that it “can bring value to the sector”: the digitization of the loading and unloading areas has been “a repeated demand in recent years by our professionals”, and therefore “anything that promotes simplification for transporters has a positive impact on their productivity”.
E-commerce increases the need to regulate DUM zones
The growth of activity related to e-commerce in recent years has forced us to respond to the needs generated by the increase in loading and unloading operations in the urban fabric: the new software will allow us to have a regulation system of the operations and their control, and will also facilitate the application of the regulation of the maximum limitation of half an hour of parking in the DUM spaces.