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 condo was supposed to make 3 runs today but the 2nd was canceled if no other solution is found the truck will go empty for 500 kilometer. Over canada has been a truck driver for almost 40 years his work has changed a lot 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 on parking 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 will 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 it 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 really going to lose. Against this one major insight was when i realized that 25 percent of trucks on the road are empty. That player and about 40 percent of their capacity goes on tap. 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 cargo next a company that aims to stop empty runs a basket in the Logistics Companies on board wasnt easy. I asked the established companies in the industry what they thought and they all said it will work its really fun to. Cargan access Online Platforms use a 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 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. The former north 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 sometimes we drive 10150 kilometers without cargo. On. The message arrives at the office impeller born in northwestern 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. To learn about it if a truck has to wait too long at the unloading point or get 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 doctor. 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 who work at schneider a company known for its pens and pencils. Her partner money where his works there too and could even ride with her but heres a prefers to take his bike to work. Just down the road money where his meets up with his father taught. A lot of oil i hate it. When 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 had 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 better at his as he bikes dont belong to them at least not yet they lease through their employer they can also write them in their free time money where pays the 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. Out of what i know 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. My underwear has never won the companys competition but hes ambitious. I think im near the top this year off some english i hope so. Well see ive 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 with her fathers idea. And commuting bike is so popular now that its getting the bus to run for its money. To fly their local go here like the 2 programs compete with each other in a way at 1st as the time i pass only started with bicycles and 2012 some people switched from the past to the feyerick of course that had an impact on sustainability it beat us with room for 55. 00 so only 5 people on it has an effect so were looking for workable solution is so frightening us all small advanced less so figuring out the best solution is to get. Martinos 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 this small and economical and each person could travel a different route. Every concept is always going to meet 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 the future but this now does need a quick solution a nearby Company Recently started offering its workforce a carpooling Service Using many basses every morning jeff did call him on collects his colleagues and after work he drives them home in the evenings and on weekends. Buses available as part of a car sharing scheme open to the public. Are common but your venice for right. More are 9 seats and 9 of us before we leave my place at 630 so. People can now leave their cars at home. For the night a company its a promising idea they could use more many buses in the winter and few 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 that our original goal was to replace 20000 kilometers of driving weve done that many times over weve put in over 400000 kilometers. Yes i live i shall hear probably really to find out who the winners are. Number look was close. By. The model. The 3rd winner is money well his congratulations and good luck this Upcoming Season off oracle for the next now you get one year on your bike free of charge that this is. 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. The city of trashed 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 is a bit of 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. 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. 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 early on a tour of the taste but remember clearly where you want to go about cycling through your trip i would like that carried out enjoy your the d. R. S. 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. And the other idea to make biking more fun is smart and playful traffic light could feel which on its head in 2017. The turtle tells riders to slow down to catch the green knight a rabbit means pedal hard ok kelly yeah he has power for you so no chance of getting going on. A cross train just new bike paths and bridges are sprouting up to give cyclists the fastest and most convenient rinks. 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 action and like how to of course 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. Way. The latest mega project 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. Lot fun who is you trace deputy mayor responsible for transport and mobility when we build this kind of beautiful parking space bar go really go to psycho just because the facilities are there so its stimulate the mobility that we like. Trashed 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 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 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 the tide 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 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 public transport so theres really no fast mobility inside this area. The residents of the already under take 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 a historical change and we try to undo all the damage thats been done been done in the fiftys and sixtys and seventys. I leave and 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 kylie directly to how to where cars are now just guests. Truckdriver overcomer is still waiting for a load of freight otherwise hell have to drive an empty truck 500 kilometers to her. At the companys headquarters all of a book is trying to prevent the empty run hes on the cargo next Online Platform looking for a suitable order. He spotted something pick up in a location not too far from where 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 powered cages and 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 an unnecessary truck off the road its a win for the Logistics Company the roads and our. Environment. That in hamburg oath to tell loveland 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 of. Your kind. 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 typical sentence yet. If all trucks in germany operated at such a high capacity at least half of empty 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. Car leave undone and her family live in the town of hearten outside taste before living here she could hardly imagine doing without a car but in house and she does everything by bike. Right into a house 3 minutes. And by card to the ranch house 10 minutes some people dont understand how and why you want to get in the car to do the shopping her 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 riding every way its a 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 just so more independent to write they come out of school and i know they can get themselves from one place to another place i dont have to chaperone 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 are not on the bike i just dont like. In 2018 how tim was voted the netherlands best bicycle city around the world the suburb of 50000. Its regarded as a 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 commissionaire and i put in my hands is a friend of kylies. You know how to 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 overflying birch. 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 combat decks back then housing was still a village in the search for new housing near to taste it decision was made to build a new community here with a very special traffic concept that is new so. 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. Because youre going to 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 visit them. By bike it is. A menage by car impossible this is a barrier you have to go out to shoot or a road. And driving driving driving your movement in my back. 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 nederlandse 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 mobile ac infrastructure Company Passes and cheap or even free public transport. This transformation wont happen overnight but they are people and places that have paved the way for us. 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