Delivery logistics
How can delivery processes and commercial transport be bundled and optimized in order to secure the supply of goods to city centres and in the countryside, while at the same time relieving the associated traffic volume? What contribution can the region and local authorities make to establishing innovative and sustainable forms of supplying goods to companies, retailers and private customers, thereby strengthening city centers, for example?
Up to now, sustainable, future-oriented mobility has usually only considered forms of personal mobility such as public transport, bicycles or motor vehicles. Yet commercial traffic accounts for more than a third of all traffic movements and is of existential importance, especially in a strong economic region.
The region has resolved to pay more attention to commercial traffic and to establish appropriate support options.
Concrete proposals for this include, for example
- securing and strengthening rail freight transport in the region
- supporting projects such as packing stations and delivery facilities
- Delivery zones, city / micro hubs as interfaces for electric or consolidated deliveries
- Strategies for inner-city deliveries
To this end, the region has established a regional logistics working group, which meets at the invitation of Verband Region Stuttgart (VRS) and Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH (WRS). Representatives of the municipalities exchange ideas with experts on the topic of delivery logistics and the joint development of implementation-oriented projects.
Support
Back in 2016, the Verband Region Stuttgart conducted a comprehensive study of the interfaces between rail and shipping traffic. This examined the potential of all existing industrial tracks, routes, ports and lands. In 2025, the Verband Region Stuttgart, together with the state capital Stuttgart and the districts of Böblingen, Esslingen, Ludwigsburg and Rems-Murr-Kreis, commissioned a project to identify potential in rail freight transport, to define targeted measures to strengthen rail freight transport in the Stuttgart Region and, in a third step from 2026, to initiate concrete and localized implementation projects in the Stuttgart Region.
To the overview of the projects and programs of the Verband Region Stuttgart
