Executive Summary
Foreword
Introduction
Rankings
Two Pillars
Safety
Fleet Management
City Snapshots
What This Means
Outlook
Methodology
Why urban freight efficiency matters
Freight is the circulatory system of European cities. Every product on a shelf, every parcel at a door, every component on a production line depends on the road network. When that system flows, economies thrive. When it slows, costs compound across entire supply chains: wasted fuel, excess emissions, unpredictable delivery windows, driver fatigue and increased costs to consumers.
How we measured city efficiency Data source: Geotab connected vehicle platform. Period: January–December 2025. Scope:
This Index measures both.
Using a full year of real-world connected vehicle data from the Geotab platform, we benchmarked seven major European capitals across two dimensions: 01 How well traffic flows Can vehicles move through the network efficiently? How predictable are journey times? How many hours per day does traffic flow freely? 02 What congestion actually costs When traffic slows, how much waste does it create? How much fuel is lost to idling? What is the real operational cost of gridlock?
7 European capitals — Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, Rome, Paris, London, Madrid. Vehicles: Passenger vehicles and trucks, analysed separately. Scoring: 0–100 scale (higher = more efficient). Note: Scores are based on a sample of connected vehicles and represent normalised, relative comparisons.
The results reveal dramatic differences between regions and between cities separated by only a few hundred kilometres.
Full methodology on page 21.
European Urban Freight Efficiency Index
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