Kalisz, sometimes referred to as the oldest city in Poland, its history dates back to 2nd century. The city is located in the southeastern part of the Wielkopolska Region, about 250 km southwest of Warsaw and approximately 105 km southeast of Poznan. As the second largest city in the region, Kalisz is one of the most important administrative, economic and socio-cultural centre of the region.
Kalisz, sometimes referred to as the oldest city in Poland, its history dates back to 2nd century. The city is located in the southeastern part of the Wielkopolska Region, about 250 km southwest of Warsaw and approximately 105 km southeast of Poznan. As the second largest city in the region, Kalisz is one of the most important administrative, economic and socio-cultural centre of the region.
The dynamic development of cities and changes in the lifestyle of their inhabitants result in a constant increase in their transport needs. As transport behaviour changes, the number of vehicles on the streets increases, resulting in congestion, accidents, emissions and noise, and a consequent reduction in the quality of life. Furthermore these issues concentrate in city centre, where there are a lot of historical monuments and high density of urban structure.
The distribution of goods in urban areas is heavily increasing and therefore it strongly contributes to the increase of traffic in the city centre. Goods deliveries require unloading spaces that are convenient enough to unload the cargo fast and does not cause additional disturbances when unloading is on-going.
Objective of this pilot
The city of Kalisz has not introduced any system for managing goods deliveries in the city. It has not even defined methodology for managing of deliveries as part of logistic functioning element of urban planning. The main goal of the project will be not only to examine the possibilities of using the Internet of Things in designing transport in the city, both freight and passenger, but also to respond to the question how to managing goods deliveries in the city.