The Observatory

The Observatory of Urban Freight Transport (OTUC) Quito is a technological tool for systematically collecting data from Quito's urban cargo transport system and its conversion into information and trends over time. The observatory creates a collaborative space that invites companies, policymakers, and academia involved in urban freight transport dynamics to benefit from the collected information and generate the enabling conditions to monitor and validate their behavior, efficiency, and evolution.

This project, which is of great value to stakeholders from the private, public, and academic sectors, supports developing and understanding cargo transport/distribution dynamics and last-mile logistics in densely populated urban areas. In an environment with complex transport conditions, such as the city of Quito, the systematic collection of data from the main actors allows the identification of global trends on urban freight transport through aggregated information for the informed design of private policies for the company and public policy in conjunction with public sector authorities. Additionally, it facilitates identifying specific information of each company that will allow a complete analysis of the specific trends of interest of its cargo transport and distribution operations in an urban context.