Bogotá

• Develop solutions that will contribute to Bogota’s recently adopted Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 15% in 2024, 50% in 2030 and to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

• Improve freight mobility in the city by reducing congestion-based greenhouse gas and air pollutants emissions from logistics operations by 100,000 tonnes of CO2 and 100 tonnes of PM2.5 by 2024, approx.

• Enable a constant speed of travel through the city, as research highlights that traffic jams have a significant impact on emissions as they demand additional fuel consumption.

• Bogotá produces around 5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, and the transport sector is responsible for 48% of them. Ensuring the solution is adopted throughout the rest of Colombia requires tailoring of the solution to the environmental, geographic and local context.
• Bogotá faces significant traffic congestion due to the inefficient use of transportation alternatives and resources, as well as the lack of an intelligent traffic management systems focused on freight transport.
• Aim to engage the informal sector, including owners with older vehicles and smaller budgets. 
• The freight sector accounts for at least 10% of greenhouse gas emissions and 16% of PM emissions in the city, which includes all emissions sources. Within the transport sector, freight transport accounts for 38 per cent of particulate matter emissions in Bogotá, making it the greatest contributor of this pollutant.

• A series of workshops and presentations to further detail the challenge
• Weekly drop-in Q&A sessions with the city lead & partners
• Responses to specific questions via email
• Access to relevant data sets and studies, including mobility and emissions inventory databases and tools for solution development; logistics and cargo datasets; freight and mobility studies
• Introduction to key freight sector stakeholders through the Urban Logistics Network
• The option to use physical and/or virtual spaces throughout the competition
• Facilitate access to city spaces and permits for testing solutions.
• Accompanying the ideation, testing and scaling of solutions.
• Connect solutions and solvers with partners and investors.

• Software developers
• Fleet logistics companies
• Technologists
• Transport and urban mobility planners/engineers

The city is prepared to work with the winning team to implement demonstrators in an area that could be defined with the participants, in a way that suits the participants and the city.

The Bogotá Development Plan 2020-2024 sets out the Mayor’s objectives, policies and proposals for protecting the environment  and improving the Bogotá quality of life. For this regard it provides a vision for Bogotá through 2 purposes: No 2: Bogotá Reverdece and No 4 Region of a model of multimodal, inclusive and sustainable mobility.  

In addition, the Secretariat of Mobility is working to strengthen the role of urban logistics in public policy documents. The structuring of the Land Management Plan, the Mobility Master Plan, the Low Carbon Action Plan for Urban Freight, and the Logistics Vision 2050 set out objectives, actions, and indicators and present the conditions necessary to implement these actions in the short, medium, and long term. To achieve this, collaboration with all stakeholders and the generation of regular and reliable data are the success factors for structuring programs, projects, and policies in this area.   From there, it is possible to plan efficient and low-carbon urban logistics, involving stakeholders and contributing to national greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.

Understanding the air quality issues and regulatory environment related to the freight sector, the City has the Strategic Plan of Air Management of Bogotá 2030, also called the Air Plan, adopted in 2021, with a budget of around 40 thousand USD, from 2020 to 2030, for 45 projects, including a Sustainable freight transport program to reduce emissions from this sector.

In order to achieve emission reduction goals and the co-benefit in public health, stringent emission standards and fuel policies should be continuously and effectively implemented.. Bogota’s Air Plan is the management tool for the actions that the city must take to reduce air pollutant emissions, to be able to comply with World Health Organization (WHO) Goals. These set of actions are intended to improve Bogota’s quality of life and competitiveness and integrate fundamental goals: governance, relationship with climate change, green growth, and energy efficiency.

Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia, South America, is located in the geographic center of the country.

Bogotá has nearly 8 million inhabitants, representing 22% of the country’s total population, and a population density of 18,881 residents per km. With 28% of the companies in the country located in the capital, Bogotá faces significant traffic congestion due to the inefficient use of transportation alternatives and resources, as well as the lack of an intelligent traffic management system, making innovation in this area crucial.