A lot of empty runs on the weekend after dropping off their cargo trucks came back empty that something on the public wants to avoid. Hoover congo 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 has. To the canada has been a truck driver for almost 40 years his work has changed a loss over that time. Thats why im on call this used to be a dream job not me more. There are too many trucks on the roads and. Traffic is heavy 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 mean. 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. Both 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 stunned there was a fine auto body that was 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 richards its illegal to do this. Against this one major insight was when i realized that 25 percent of trucks on the road are empty. Complex layer and about 40 percent of our capacity goes on to. 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. And 2016 he took the plunge and founded coggan x a company that aims to stop mt runs bass getting the Logistics Companies on board wasnt easy. All the home glass the established companies in the industry what they thought and they all said it will work its really fun to. Cargan excess Online Platform uses 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. Has nearly completed his 1st delivery the carrier he drives for has been using her 50 to love her answers 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 a north south when youre ready to go you press here to indicate youre looking for an order. That tells the office the truck is empty kinds of r. V. Sometimes we drive 10150 kilometers without cargo. On. The message arrives at the office in part a 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. 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. Colorless usually drives to her work at a company known for its pens and pencils. Her partner 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 monterey his that meets up with his father taught local boy if i buy it i ask if. He also works at schneider 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 roads. Miner and battered his bikes dont belong to them at least not yet their 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 you 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. 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. Mean every journey is recorded in the log books. Man who has never won the companys competition but hes ambitious. Near the top this year. I hope so. Well see 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 martinas grandfather who launched the company pass the bicycles were her fathers idea and commuting bike is so popular now that its giving the bus a run for its money. To fly here like the 2 programs compete with each other in a way but 1st is the type i passed when we started with bicycles and 2012 some people switched from the past to the fine of course that had an impact on sustainability it beat us with a 55. 00 so only 5 people has a new pet so we look for workable solution is so frightening possible small the vast less so figuring out the best solution to. Martin is 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 bus could travel a different route. The concept is always going to need to be updated and modified were putting a lot of thought into what the future. It look like its. Self driving buses might be the wave of the future but this now does need a quick a solution and yet by Company Recently started offering its workforce a carpooling Service Using mini buses every morning jeff did call him and collect 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. For your business for right. Where are 9 seats and 9 of. My place at 630. 00 so. People can now leave their cars at home. For the night a 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 bike scheme. 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 goal in st placed 20000 kilometers of driving weve done that many times over weve put in over 400000 kilometers. Yes i had a liver failure providing ready to find out who the winners. Was close. To. The model. The 3rd winner is money well his congratulations and good luck this Upcoming Season in africa over the next now you get one year on your bike free of charge that this is. Leasing bikes and Company Passes are just 2 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 isnt content to rest on its laurels its continuing to invest in is a bit of projects. Originally from australia kind of undone 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 it was 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 fun slip hes going to take early on a tour of the taste but not required or you want to learn about cycling through your trip i would like that carried out in joke you know the address of you my job is to teach anyone who wants to learn how to ride safely in traffic you believe in calling for here. Even on a 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 and smart and playful traffic lights called flow which connoted in 2017. The turtle tells right is to slow down to catch the green knight rather means pedal hard ok kylie theyre using his power for you so no chance of getting green. Across trashed new bike paths and bridges are sprouting up to give cyclists the fastest and most convenient rates. This new bridge is even heated in the winter so that it doesnt that. Its happening and you can see that in a city like you to explain it in the example and like how to of course there are but are cities who are really thinking from how do we get from being a car city to be a National City we. Traced it is continuing to invest in a car free future. My. Latest megaproject cost more than 30000000. 00 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 we built this kind of beautiful parkings people are going to go to psycho just because the facilities are there so its it stimulates the mobility to be like. The treasure that is growing and doesnt want to be overwhelmed by car traffic and 2017 the city invested 130. 00 euros per resident into cycling infrastructure berlin invested just for year and 70 per resident buttressed hasnt always been a world class bike city. Like in many other countries in the 1950 s. And sixtys 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 dunk reducing car traffic is a priority a new district with 6000 wellings 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 bikes public transport so theres really no fast mobility inside this area. The residents of already undertake half of 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. Carly van dam 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. The Cycle Express or it brings karlie directly to how to where cars are now just guests. Truck driver is still waiting for a load of freight otherwise hell have to drive an empty truck 500 kilometers to where. At the companys headquarters all of a 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 me overcome it is waiting. One click and he has the job. So that trucks now been taking care of. The order is coming through for monday 35 power cages 10 pallets for drilling and so we can get moving. Over can he 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 in a mystery truck of the road its a win for the Logistics Company the roads and our. Environment. Back in hamburg 050 to love planes 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 the quarter and what. If all the 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 jams but what could be done about the traffic taking over our cities. Again we can look to the netherlands for an answer. Kai leave undone and her family live in the town of potent outside taste before living here she could hardly imagine doing without a car but in house and she does everything by bike. Right into my house is 3 minutes. And by car to do this around to act out 10 minutes some people dont understand how why you would get in the car to do the shopping their children also go to school on their own 9 year old rafi has just short trips. His older 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 8 kilometers back and forth but its still better than the car yeah because the car is not really that good for the next year and its also more independent to write they come out of school and i know they can get themselves to one place to another place i dont have to chaperone them theyre independent they can make decisions for themselves and they just feel good they feel good in the world in other countries i just find it weird that they all just have cars that are like you just have to go in a car and not on the bike. Just like. In 2018 how tim was voted the netherlands based bicycle city around the world this 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 and i put in months is a friend of kylies. Cyclists always you know cycle on they never have to stop not for cars or traffic not for traffic lights not for trains nothing airplanes. And over flying birds. Next article kylie wants to report on how houghton became a bicycle city. Shes missing the man who planned this town more than 50 years ago desks back then housing was still a village in the search for new housing near it decision was made to build a new community here with a very special traffic concept. 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 as green areas walking cycling quality of life. Because youre going to come with. A community with a car is an afterthought a community with room for people in your area and your friend is living over there and you want to go to visit them. By bike it is. A menage bike are impossible this is a barrier you have to go out to shoot or a road and driving driving driving your movements in and buy. Theres the formula. People can still drive and house 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 in is the heaven of heaven. I believe that with the right incentives we can leave our cars behind like bike Friendly Communities and new mobility Infrastructure Company buses and cheap or even free public transport. This transformation wont happen overnight but there are people and places that have paved the way for us to. Take. On the catwalk. Fabric and fashions into elegant close by. Young designer. Up cycling trash. What else will you find on the dump. Your. Next d. W. Tracing the border once divided germany. Want to take it on the road tore along the border mccain has said and. Over 30 years ago the i am cuts of divided blood into east and west right here find out what has changed since reunification and well explore what from aims for visitors to see today. Changes. To 60. W. When the water rises cities will sink into the sea. Entire stretches of land will be abandoned. When the water struggles. To be stopped its happening faster than anticipated. Massive sprinklers are supposed to prevent flooding but they only delay the inevitable. How will we live in the future. 66 meters rising sea levels starts june 5th on d. W. Welcome to a new edition of. Euro max today well be taking you on another to all of berlin and what better place to start at the famous brand birkett gate usually teeming with tourists and street performers in these times of corona the culture industry is really suffering