It's nice to see larger outlets talking about urbanism topics and Vox has made a few videos in this area recently.

  • michaelrose@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It looks like they believe they can replace 10% of Vans with bikes if they use Vans or trucks to move stuff to local pickup points and can thereby replace 10% of their vans with bikes in very dense urban core. This is interesting but underwhelming.

    • mondoman712@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Where did you get 10% from, the article says

      Recent estimates from Europe suggest that up to 51% of all freight journeys in cities could be replaced by cargo bike

      • michaelrose@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Are we redefining moving all freight to collection points near endpoints with all vans all the time and moving 51% the last 3 miles as handling 51% of freight with bikes? Even so call me when you've actually done it some places

        • mondoman712@lemmy.ml
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          I don't work in logistics, so I won't be doing this. You can read the paper quoted and that should answer your questions: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146516000478