What is the potential for CycleLogistics?
The transport behaviour in European cities varies considerably
and there are also different methods for collectting
and analysing data. While there is considerable amounts of
data on urban passenger transport there is very little on urban
goods transport. CycleLogistics carried out a baseline
study (see download at cyclelogistics.eu) to compile and
analyse the existing data on transport behaviuor in European
cities. This research resulted in surprising and interesting
results.
To obtain a complete image, all delivery and service trips
undertaken in a city have to be added to the personal trips
undertaken in a city. In the next step we determined the
share of motorised trips. The next step looked at motorised
trips that were connected with goods transport. This
calculation left us with 49% of all trips for further analysis.
Taking a closer look at these 49% of motorised trips relating
to goods transport, we determined that a share of 21%
relates to commercial traffic (delivery, service, business)
while 28% of the trips are related to private logistics (shopping,
leisure, commuter).
Taking into account distance (less than 7km) and weight
(more than a handbag less than 200kg load) and also that
part of the trip (business, commuter, leisure) could be
Baseline
1. CycleLogistics - Moving goods by bike
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shifted to trip chains e.g. bike and train, we were able to
identify the share of trips that could be shifted from motorised
vehicles to the bicycle. We see that 25% out of
the 49% of all urban motorised trips with goods transport
could be shifted to cycling.