Also suffer the effects of road traffic clogged streets and produce it and if you build a city or wrongs of car you forget to human beings on the street. As a crossroads how can we really imagine the mobility of the future. Shipment has failed to materialize the just 6 agent all of it goes over to talk to his driver in the meantime they had a lot of empty runs on the weekend after dropping off their cargo trucks came back empty so thats something all of the public wants to avoid. Overcome there was supposed to make 3 runs today but the 2nd was cancelled if no other solution is found the truck will go empty for 500 kilometers. Yes. Over canada has been a truck driver for almost 40 years his look has changed a loss over that time. But. This used to be a dream job not anymore. There are too many trucks on the road and. Traffic is heavy on and there are constant traffic jams i cant just drive past it on the shoulder or say get out of my way im on a deadline that means. The number of trucks on germanys freeways has been rising with no end in sight but 2030 its expected that freight volume will increase by 39 percent driven by the growth in online shopping. More goods going by road to bring more congestion. Close to tell our friends is a Management Consultant he never had anything to do with trucks or Freight Companies but one day that changed. I was standing. Off an autobahn leader stuck in a traffic jam on a freeway like this. In front of me the trucks were lined up to the horizon i wondered if there might be a smarter way to deal with freight shipments its really going to loosen. Against this to go on a major insight was when i realized that 25 percent of trucks on the road are empty. Complex layer and about 40 percent of the capacity goes on tax but. Now im on the roads the solution was clear to him fewer empty trucks would help reduce traffic and its Environmental ImpactEnvironmental Issues are high on his agenda he takes the train to work. In 2016 he took the plunge and founded cargo next a company that aims to stop empty runs basket in the Logistics Companies on board wasnt easy. I asked the established companies in the industry what part and they also work its really fun to. Cargo nexus Online Platform users self learning algorithms to calculate logistics capacity and demand in real time when a Company Wants to ship goods to a customer it has to strike a deal with religious text. That takes time. The platform acts as an intermediary calculating a current market price in the blink of an eye the Logistics Company see it online whoever has an empty truck nearby can claim the job and send their driver straight away. It makes sense but is the Logistics Industry ready to change the way it operates the trucking business is already stressful enough. Over the counter has nearly completed his 1st delivery the carrier he drives for has been using hove to to love planes as Online Platform for just 2 weeks will it work after unloading theres a gap his next job isnt 500 kilometers away his truck will have to make the run empty unless his dispatcher manages to get him another order. Form when youre ready to go you press here to indicate youre looking for an order. That tells the office the truck is empty. Sometimes we drive 10150 kilometers without cargo. On. The message arrives at the office in pattaya born in northwest in germany the dispatches does looking for a suitable cargo time is of the essence the company only earns money when the truck is loaded and on the road. About it if a truck has to wait too long at the unloading point or gets stuck in traffic it can miss its delivery window so we have to reshuffle the deck 3 or 4 times a day. Before have a dr. Can the intelligent Online Platform help that would be good for the environment and help prevent clogged roads. Commuters are another piece of the past they add to the traffic burden. Colors usually drives to home work at schneider a company known for its pens and pencils. Have passed their money where his works there too and could even ride with her but heres the prefers to take his bike to work. Just down the road money where his meets up with his father bear tight. Little boy i hate it. Or hate me also works at snyder its a snowy morning in this corner of the black forest in southwestern germany but every day rain or shine the 2 cycle to work 5 kilometers over hilly terrain. Not far from their house is a bus stop the passengers also work for schneider. It looks like a regular city bus but her belongs to the family owned company. For the past 34 years theres been a Free Bus Service for employees so they can leave their cars at home commuters are a major burden on germanys roads some 68 percent drive to work most of them alone in their cars up to 55 people can fit on the company bus so that means up to 55 fewer cars on the road. Manner and battered his bikes dont belong to them at least not yet they lease through their employer they can also write them in their free time. Pays a leasing fee of 65. 00 euros per month his employer offers a financial incentive if he bikes to work at least 60 times a year the company pays up to 35. 00 euros of the monthly rate meanwhile a 3rd of schneiders workforce is taking part and a reward awaits the 3 cyclists who write the most help. If you write a lot the company will cover the costs for a whole year but when it rains we take the bus every now and then. I. Have read journey is recorded in the log books. Manoa has never won the companys competition but hes ambitious. Near the top this year. I hope so. Well see i have time to hand over the log books. The competition was multinational it is idea. She is head of Public Relations in the family for environmental awareness has long been central to the schneider companys ethos and that includes how its 400 employees commute to work it was martinez grandfather who launched the company pass the bicycles were her fathers idea and the commuting bike is so popular now that its giving the bus a run for its money. To fly more delicately and lighter to programs compete with each other in a way but 1st its the type i pass only started with bicycles and 2012 some people switched from the past to the bike of course that had an impact on sustainability it beat us with a 55. 00 so only 5 people on that has new pets so we look for workable solution is self driving us all small the vast less so figuring out the best solution to this issue is. Martineaus brother Christiane Schneider is the managing director hes especially keen on the idea of self driving buses and hes been considering purchasing 2 or 3 of these buses they can operate with or without a driver theyre small and economical and each person could travel a different route. For. Everybody below the concept is always going to need to be updated unmodified were putting a lot of thought into what the future might look like its. Self driving buses might be the wave of. Future but this now does need a quick cancellation a nearby Company Recently started offering its workforce a carpooling Service Using mini buses every morning jeff did call in one collects his colleagues and after work he drives them home in the evenings and on weekends the minibus is available as part of a car sharing scheme open to the public. But youre right. More are 9 seats and 9 of us before my place at 630 so. People can now leave their cars at home. For the company its a promising idea they could use more mini buses in the winter and fewer in the summer it would be a good supplement to the commuting bikes. But for the moment its the bike scheme thats getting all the attention. Who will win the competition and receive a years free lease on their bike when money where his come out on top the moment of truth is here. Was finally found at our regional going strong place 20000 kilometers of driving down that many times over weve put in over 400000 kilometers. Yes i had a liver failure provide be ready to find out who the winners are. Was close. By. The 3rd winner is money well his congratulations and good luck this Upcoming Season before its over the next now you get one year on your bike free of charge that is i think you. Leasing bikes and Company Passes are just too incentives that can help reduce commuter traffic but what if entire cities move to ditch their cars. This city of outraged in the netherlands has tried to do just that according to an International Survey its one of the worlds best bike cities even the head of amsterdam. But traced isnt content to rest on its laurels its continuing to invest in the projects. Originally from australia conny fund done now cause the netherlands home shed lived in a number of cities around the world but fell in love with a small town near to taste. She learned how to ride a bike here when she was already in her thirtys. Ive never cycle. I tried to cycle once i didnt know what i was doing dangerous it was 35 degrees i heard myself i only started cycling in london in central london. Really crazy. Cycling has become her passion she even writes articles for english language newspapers about cycling in the netherlands one article profiled cycling instructors like france lip hes going to take me on a tour of taste all right rick reilly you know you want to talk about about cycling through your trip i would like that very much enjoy you know the address of you my job is to teach anyone who wants to learn how to ride safely in traffic really im coming for you. Even on the bike urban traffic takes some getting used to cycling instructors are just one of the novel ideas that the netherlands has used to win people over to bikes. Another idea to make biking more fun a smart and playful traffic light could feel which would place piloted in 2017. Potential tells riders to slow down to catch the green knight rather means pedal harder to tell you where you can scour for you so no chance of getting a green light but. Across traced new bike paths and bridges are sprouting up to give cyclists the fastest and most convenient creates. This new bridge is even heated in the winter so that it doesnt move that. Its happening and you can see that in a city like you to see it in the example and walk out of course yeah there are there are cities who are really thinking from how do we get from being a car city to be a russian city we. Traced it is continuing to invest in a car for the future. My. The latest mega project costs more than 30000000 euros. The main Railway Station is now home to the Worlds Largest by kharaj. And plans are underway to remove even more cars from the city center. A lot fun is you trace deputy mayor responsible for transport and mobility weve built this kind of beautiful parking space where you go really go just so i could just because the facilities are there so its it stimulates the mobility to be like. The trash that is growing and doesnt want to be overwhelmed by car traffic in 2017 the city invested 130. 00 euros per resident into cycling infrastructure bilin invested just for euro 70 per resident but outraged hasnt always been a world class bike city. Like in many other countries in the 19 fifties and sixties the automobile was at the center of urban planning a large canal in the center of the city was even filled in so that a freeway could be built on top of it. For the past 20 years has been gradually reversing the mistakes of the past the canal is also being restored and the motorway is being transformed into a waterway and away says of car in the midst of the city. New residential developments are also doing their part for a lot fun who dunks reducing car traffic is a priority a new district with 6000 drillings isnt planning. Instead of one car per household the district will have parking for only one out of every 3 households. There will be mobility management so a couple of hops people can go for all their mobility desires car sharing electric bikes cargo x. Public transport so theres really no fast mobility in sight this area. The residents of already undertake half of all journeys by bike the deputy mayor wants to increase that. Human beings should be central in the city thats what we are building the city around and not of cars and in death since its an historical change and we try to undo all the damage thats been done been done in the fiftys and sixtys and seventys. Current event is on her way home the route takes her along a lovely cycle path its another incentive to leave the car behind people in the Netherlands Travel by bike for 27 percent of their journeys in germany that figure is 11 percent and in france just 3. Cycle express or it brings kylie directly to how to where cars are now just guests. Truckdriver the congo is still waiting for a load of freight otherwise hell have to drive an empty truck 500 kilometers to call him. At the companys headquarters all of the book is trying to prevent the empty run he is on the cargo next Online Platform looking for a suitable order. He spotted something pick up in a location not too far from where the color is waiting. One click and he has the job. So that trucks now been taken care. Of the order is coming through for monday 35 powered cages and pallets for drilling and so we can get moving. Over can have got the additional load hed hoped for its along his planned route and his truck has enough room for it thanks to intelligent freight coordination hes avoided an empty run and kept an unnecessary truck of the road its a win for the Logistics Company the roads and our. Environment. Back in hamburg hove to tell love is pleased. Although the Logistics Industry was skeptical at 1st thats changed. Some 8000 companies with more than 120000 trucks have registered with his platform. But. The larger the Network Grows the more efficient it becomes cutting down on even more empty runs. We could measure it on vehicles that operate exclusively through us. We saw a 50 percent reduction in empty kilometers compared to the overall average for. If all trucks in germany operated at such a high capacity at least half of mt runs could be avoided that would mean fewer trucks on the highways and fewer traffic. What could be done about the traffic taking over our cities. Again we can look to the netherlands for and. Leave undone and her family live in the town of heart and outside. Before living here she could hardly imagine doing without a car but in house and she does everything by pike. The right into my house 3 minutes. And by cottage against the ranch house 10 minutes some people dont understand how and why you would get in the car to do the shopping have children also go to school and their 9 year old rafi has just short trips. His old. Sisters mia and abby spend about an hour on their bikes getting to school and back every day. Its a lot of writing every way its a kilometers back and forth yet its still better than a car yeah because a car is not really that good for the nature and its just so more independent they come out of school and i know they can get themselves to one place to another place i dont have to shop around them theyre independent they can make decisions for themselves and they just feel. Good in the world in other countries i just read that they all just have cars and like you just have to go in a car and not on a bike. Just like. In 2018 houghton was voted the netherlands best bicycle city around the world the suburb of 50000 is regarded as the model for the mobility of the future car and bicycle traffic are separated wherever they do meet the bicycle always has the right of way there hasnt been a fatal cycling accident here in 40 years houghtons bicycle commissioner. Is a friend of kylies. You know how to cyclists. They never have to stop not for cars or traffic. Not for trains nothing airplanes. Over flying birds. Next article kylie wants to report on how houghton became a bicycle city. Shes meeting the man who planned this town more than 50 years ago dereks back then housing was still a village in the search for new housing new decision was made to build a new community here with a very. Traffic concept that is new brands almost and we decided to do things the other way around instead of starting with the car which was normal in urban planning we started with other things green areas walking cycling quality of life. So much i come with. A community with a car is an afterthought a community with room for people if you live here and your friend is living over there and you want to go to his den. By bike it is. Say 10 minutes and by car impossible this is a barrier you have to go out take this shit or a road and driving driving driving it is your movement in my. Theres the family but. People can still drive and house in but its never the fastest option that makes the decision to travel by bike easy and thats why the share of journeys made by bike here is the highest in the world. Some people say that if the netherlands is the heaven for cyclists then out a list or heaven of heaven. 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