The Role of City Logistics in Pursuing the Goals of Agenda 2030

The issue of city logistics has historically been addressed as a problem for improving the generalized efficiency of the delivery routes under different operating conditions. The remarkable development of supplies for purchases in store and on line has posed different problems for the society in terms of the impacts produced. On the other hand, there is a growing and worldwide interest in preserving the environment where people live, which addressed the definition of Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030. Therefore, today the central question is how to create a city logistics that allows us to pursue the objectives of Agenda 2030. The method to be used should analyze the goals, targets, and indicators of Agenda 2030, and subsequently, it should verify which current methodological design tools allow us to estimate the improvement of city sustainability, measured through the changes of a set of proposed indicators. On this basis, the indicators proposed are aggregated into three classes, which are related to: direct, indirect and conditioned impacts. The result obtained is thus the identification of the targets of Agenda 2030 that can be pursued by city logistics and therefore the need for researchers to change the focus moving from the only targets defined by the efficiency of the delivery routes towards the targets introduced by Agenda 2030. Such a work opens the way for new approaches to deal with the implementation of city logistics.