We have already begun conducting trials in partnership with hospitals and universities, who deliver many types of goods and services regularly and often by diesel vans. Each e-cargo bike replaces a van or car, resulting in environmental benefits from reduced emissions and improvements in placemaking by removing large and noisy vehicles from congested areas.
We are also looking at future opportunities to make e-cargo bikes available for public rental, so that businesses, residents and tradespeople will be able to use them as and when needed.
To measure the benefits, we have implemented a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation strategy using historic van data, GPS trackers, daily surveys and staff interviews to capture every angle.
This will help to build a better picture of how e-cargo bikes work in practice and the benefits they can bring, creating a replicable blueprint for multiple e-cargo use cases to be implemented elsewhere.
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