CITYLOGIN IBERICA SL

Their core work

CityLogin Iberica is a Spanish logistics company based in San Fernando de Henares, a major freight corridor east of Madrid, specializing in urban and last-mile delivery operations. Their core expertise lies in applying digital technologies — particularly digital twins and physical internet frameworks — to make city logistics more efficient, low-emission, and responsive to on-demand economy demands. In EU research projects they contribute the practitioner perspective: real delivery operations, route data, and urban logistics constraints that ground theoretical models in operational reality. They work at the intersection of freight network design and last-mile execution, bridging macro-level trade infrastructure planning with the actual mechanics of getting goods to urban destinations.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both projects launched simultaneously in 2020, so the evolution here reflects thematic breadth rather than a long chronological arc. PLANET approached logistics at the macro scale — geoeconomics, new trade routes, TEN-T corridor modelling, synchromodality — while LEAD zoomed into the operational end: real-time adaptive last-mile delivery driven by digital twins and on-demand demand signals. The direction of travel is from strategic network planning toward data-driven, real-time operational execution. This suggests CityLogin Iberica is deepening its digital technology capabilities and moving closer to the operational intelligence layer of logistics rather than staying in the policy and infrastructure planning space.

CityLogin Iberica is positioning itself at the data-driven operational edge of city logistics — digital twins, adaptive routing, on-demand fulfillment — which aligns directly with where smart city logistics and e-commerce infrastructure investment is heading.

How they like to work

CityLogin Iberica has participated exclusively as a consortium partner in both projects, never as coordinator, indicating they contribute domain expertise rather than project management. Despite only two projects, they have engaged with 61 unique partners across 16 countries, which reflects the large, multi-stakeholder consortia typical of RIA projects and suggests they are comfortable operating within complex pan-European research structures. For prospective partners, this means they arrive as logistics practitioners who can validate research outputs against real operations — not as a lead organization driving the agenda.

With 61 unique consortium partners across 16 countries from just two projects, CityLogin Iberica is embedded in broad, geographically diverse European research networks — a direct consequence of the large consortia characteristic of H2020 RIA transport projects. Their network spans western and central Europe, consistent with the TEN-T and global trade route themes they have worked on.

What sets them apart

CityLogin Iberica occupies a relatively rare position in EU transport research: a private logistics operator (not a university, institute, or consultancy) that brings live operational experience to research consortia working on federated freight and digital logistics. Their base in San Fernando de Henares places them within one of Spain's most active logistics zones, giving them direct access to real urban freight data and operational constraints that purely academic partners cannot replicate. For consortium builders, they fill the industry validation role — ensuring that last-mile and city logistics research is tested against the realities of actual delivery operations rather than modelled in isolation.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PLANET
  The larger-budget project (EUR 128,188) tackled the ambitious challenge of connecting TEN-T European infrastructure to global trade networks using blockchain, synchromodality, and geoeconomic modelling — one of the broadest thematic scopes in H2020 transport RIAs.
• LEAD
  Directly addresses the last-mile logistics challenge of the on-demand economy using digital twins, making it highly relevant to the rapidly growing e-commerce and urban delivery market that is reshaping European cities.