ANNONA project (Decision making tool for sustainable city logistics) is an Industrial oriented research program. It aims at producing new knowledge and methods in the domain of city freight. This project is motivated by the need of decision making tools to help institutional decision makers when designing innovative logistics solutions in city centers. It addresses item ‘smart-cities’ within axis 1 of the ‘Ville et Bâtiments Durables’ call for projects. City freight is often seen as a need for necessary evil, although it has been constantly improved since a few decades. However, most approaches to implement urban logistics are based on benchmarks. This leads to systematize what has been decided for referent cities, and select on-shelves solutions. As a consequence, such empirical approaches rarely meet the needs of all the concerned stakeholders. There is a lack for methods and tools aiming at predicting the impacts of innovative freight solutions at the very early design step. To fill this gap, ANNONA will address a major lockup: evaluating ex ante the multi-criteria impacts of urban logistics strategies. It will focus on a principal question: where and how to design and implement freight facilities and logistics areas in cities, with respect to sustainable objectives. To do so, new theoretical models will be proposed to deal with complexity of urban freight. A prototype of dashboard to assess the performances of logistics scenarii will be built. This prototype will be based on Geographic Information Systems so as to be used in a very interactive and visual way by decision makers and stakeholders. It will predict the consequences of freight policies on economic, environmental and social dimensions. ANNONA project team is composed of scientists in logistics, environment sciences, economics of transports, and dynamic modeling of traffic. Multi-disciplinary has been favored so as to fully address the multiple dimensions of urban freight problematic. International partnership with South America is a contributing factor to enlarge the vision of cities beyond the borders of Europa. Last but not least, institutional partners will bring their own know how to make sure the proposed solutions are relevant in the field.