The Sustainable Cities Challenge Detroit - Transforming Freight
The Toyota Mobility Foundation’s Sustainable Cities Challenge in Detroit was a three-year challenge that brought together innovators, the City of Detroit, and partners to demonstrate clean freight solutions in the Eastern Market.
Across multiple challenge rounds, innovators Watch this to learn more about the Detroit City Challengehave demonstrated their solutions through collaborative development, resulting in three winners who will share $1.5 million in implementation funding to scale their solutions across the city.
The call to innovators: Demonstrate solutions that reduce fossil fuel use and cut costs of freight operations in Eastern Market
Solutions needed to address one or more of the following:
- Reduce idling time
- Reduce partial loads and empty miles
- Reduce reliance on fossil fuel for cold chain logistics and freight management
- Reduce implementation costs and barriers to adopting clean freight technologies
Support to innovators: We supported innovators in developing their solutions by providing:
- Up to ten $50,000 implementation grants in the semi-finalist stage
- Up to five $130,000 implementation grants in the finalist stage
- $1.5 million final implementation funding, to be shared among up to 3 winners
- Connections to businesses in Eastern Market to understand their operations
- Facilitation to engage directly with city leaders
- Capacity building support
- Access to a network of like-minded innovators
Find out more
To discover more about the Sustainable Cities Challenge Detroit and meet the finalist teams, as well as the previous semi-finalists teams, head to the dedicated website by clicking the link below. Sustainable Cities Challenge Detroit