Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I explain it poorly or you don’t want to understand, in any case we are talking past each other. In my vision, no one drives their car to the parcel locker anymore. They walk or take a transport module, or the exit of their transport module, which they used from their workplace, lets them off at the parcel locker that stores their package. They then cover the remaining 50 meters on foot. No additional mobility service is created, but the existing one is replaced by a more efficient and society-friendly one.

The scooters also cannot independently load a package at one parcel locker and unload it at another location. It doesn’t even have to be a package. Letters, urgently needed purchases. The heating technician who repaired a heating system at an address, with spare parts that were already waiting for him (even better, arrived simultaneously) then seamlessly drives to the new building to connect the heat pump that arrives just as he and his two colleagues get out of their transport modules, together with the customer’s kindergarten child. There, the waste paper is loaded as well as the empties into the other transport module, etc. pp. The limits are in the minds.

If we leave immediate delivery aside, it is still better for the climate to deliver packages to the doorstep than if everyone individually commutes to some pickup points. 1 vehicle delivers vs. 50 vehicles picking up individually. Especially the Amazon driver delivers x packages on the same street. And that with three or more Amazon vehicles per day. Whether it can be done better in another way, I don't know. But I am sure the vehicles are full of packages and drive optimized short routes in the target area.

Yes, it can be done better. Watch old films: it used to be called downtown and stores.

No, I agree with Tassimat: The times when thousands of annoyed families were stuck in car queues back and forth, fighting over parking spaces and stressed out, loaded with shopping bags, sitting in traffic jams again, were definitely not better.

But the parcel delivery person certainly does not have to drive up to every house entrance except in exceptional cases. A parcel locker within a 200-300m radius each is enough (similar to bus stops).

Hello,

[*]No, the next passenger is already waiting where you want to get off, or you will just be let off 50m earlier or later than you originally wanted.

And unfortunately, that is one of the crucial misconceptions. The traffic peaks occur in the morning and evening rush hours. And in this case, you simply have the situation that in the morning, many people want to go from A to Y (= employees' residential areas) to Z (= the same location of company XYZ), but almost no one travels in the opposite directions or even boards at the company site XYZ. In the evening, you have the opposite problem.

With a system like the one you describe, you can only depict well-balanced, very even traffic flows. That would probably work really well, but unfortunately has nothing to do with reality. The real traffic flows are very imbalanced; they do not distribute nicely and evenly but concentrate on different points and directions, which also change throughout the day.

To put it metaphorically: your system works in a calm and protected village pond. Reality, however, is more like the Wadden Sea with strong and changing tidal currents.

If you want to get that under control, you have to homogenize traffic and transport demands. It has to become more even; in principle, you have to abolish the entire rush hour.

Best regards,

Andreas

Sorry but that is exactly the opposite. In the countryside, you don't have enough throughput to run the system without idle times and standstills. Especially in urban areas, you have enough demand for logistics services for it to work.

However, in my first posts, I didn't make it clear enough that the intended transport modules should not only be able to carry people. See my previous post for that.

Hello,

Yes, it can be done better. Look at old movies: people used to call it downtown and shops.

Oh God, and to waste my valuable time searching around stores, hearing snappy answers ("we don’t have that item in that size here, but I can order it, it takes 2 weeks and you have to pay in advance. I won’t call you when it’s here, you just have to come by on a hunch") and annoying wandering? And on top of that paying inflated prices because the store owner thinks he has a natural right to 50 €/sqm rent?

No, thank you. Retail lost me completely and forever years ago.

And yes, there are also various studies showing that online retail is even more efficient than brick-and-mortar retail. Whether they are accurate, however, is difficult to judge....

Best regards,

Andreas