Arteixo

Arteixo is a growing industrial and logistics municipality whose daily mobility patterns are dominated by private vehicles and heavy transport. More than 65,000 daily trips occur between Arteixo and A Coruña, mostly by car. Meanwhile, industrial estates such as Sabón and Morás generate intense logistics activity linked to major companies (Inditex, Repsol, Estrella Galicia).

The municipality has taken significant steps towards sustainable mobility, including the SIMU municipal bus service (+17% ridership in 2024) and the BiciArteixo shared bike system (+700 users in six months). However, fleet electrification remains a major challenge. Both public and private fleets—buses, service vehicles, and logistics operators—depend almost entirely on fossil fuels.

Currently, no comprehensive charging infrastructure plan exists. A few scattered charging points serve private users, but there is no strategic network supporting electric public transport or freight fleets. This limits the transition to low-emission mobility and the integration of electric modes into a unified urban system.

Arteixo’s next mobility phase requires a smart charging infrastructure plan: mapping needs, identifying priority sites, designing interoperable systems, and enabling efficient energy management to serve municipal fleets, logistics operators, and citizens. The city is therefore looking for innovative, data-driven solutions that can help analyse and identify the optimal locations for future charging points, particularly for the municipal bus network. Additionally, the city is interested in potentially incorporating data from logistics vehicles, as well, and will seek to involve the relevant stakeholders where possible.

The objective of this city challenge is not to install or test physical charging stations, but to obtain data-driven insights, analyses, and mapping that inform the planning of an integrated smart charging infrastructure for Arteixo.

Arteixo needs to plan and deploy a smart, citywide charging infrastructure to support the electrification of public and municipal fleets. Existing facilities are limited and lack coordination, hindering the shift to low-emission mobility. Because of this, Arteixo is seeking to identify optimal locations for charging points that serve public and municipal fleets while improving charger availability and grid efficiency.

Area: The main urban axis connecting the settlements of Arteixo, Vilarrodís, Oseiro, Pastoriza and Meicende, which together concentrate around 80% of the municipality’s population.  

DESIRED SITUATION

To evaluate the impact of the selected solution and the pilot, the following KPIs are proposed: 

• Data coverage and integration: % of relevant datasets (mobility, grid, land use, fleet operations) collected, harmonised, and used in the analysis

• Prioritisation accuracy: Number and share of proposed charging sites that meet defined suitability criteria (e.g. accessibility, grid capacity, demand density)

• Reduction in time or complexity for planning new chargers using the new methodology or tool, compared to baseline manual processes (assess possibility of measurement).