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just walkin emigrants. the police will stop. because some shut down their flight could be fatal but going back is not an option. i'm on and are stuck in the spanish border area where they're waiting for a chance that will probably never come shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w. . in other countries i just read it without the interest of cars and like you just have to go even because i'm not on the bike you may just dirty like.
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germany's highways are overcrowded and traffic is only getting worse. the month before said just didn't think about it there are 2000000 trucks on europe's roads every day i decided i had to do something most of the. living areas also suffer the effects of road traffic clogged streets and produce it and if you build a city and wrongs a car you forget to human beings on the street. as a cross-reference how can we really imagine the mobility of the future. i. look at shipman test failed to materialize the just 6 agent all of it took goes over to talk to his driver. in the meantime they had
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a lot of empty runs on the weekend after dropping off their cargo trucks came back empty that's something all of the clerk wants to avoid. overcome there 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. over canada has been a truck driver for almost 40 years his look has changed the laws have at that time . this used to be a dream job not anymore. there are too many trucks on the road and. traffic is heavy on and there are constant traffic jams i can't just drive past it on the shoulder or say get out of my way i'm on a deadline that means. the number of trucks on germany's freeways has been rising
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with no end in sight but 2030 it's 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. is a management consultant he never had anything to do with trucks or freight companies but one day that changed. i was stunned to. find autobahn really 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 richard it's it's only going to lose. against 51 major insight was when i realised that 25 percent of trucks on the road are empty. that
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layer in about 40 percent of the capacity goes on to. the birds the solution was clear to him fewer empty trucks would help reduce traffic and its environmental impact environmental issues are high on his agenda he takes the train to work. in 2016 he took the plunge and founded cargo next a company that aims to stop empty runs baskets in the logistics companies on board wasn't easy. to ship so yes an overhaul to home i asked the established companies in the industry what they thought and they all said it will work it's really fun to . cargan excess online platform users 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
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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. over cancer has nearly completed his 1st delivery the carrier he drives will has been using hove to to love places online platform for just 2 weeks will it work after unloading there's a gap his next job is in 500 kilometers away. his truck will have to make the run empty unless his dispatcher manages to get him another. foreman or sat when you're ready to go you press here to indicate you're looking for an order. that tells the office the truck is empty kinds of r.v.
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sometimes we drive 10150 kilometers without cargo. on. the message arrives at the office in part a born in northwest in germany the dispatcher starts looking for a suitable cargo time is of the essence the company only earns money when the truck is loaded and on the road. along about it 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.
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colors usually drives to her 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 here's a prefers to take his bike to work. just down the road monterey his meets up with his father that hides. a lot of oil i. would say off with. me also works at schneider it's 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
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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 there's been a free bus service for employees so they can leave their cars at home commuters are a major burden on germany's 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. manu and battered his as the bikes don't belong to them at least not yet they lease through their employer they can also ride 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
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a 3rd of schneider's 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. have read jenny is recorded in the log books. man who has never won the company's competition but he's ambitious. for me i think i'm near the top this year. i hope so. we'll 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 company's ethos and that includes how its 400 employees commute to work it was
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martinez grandfather who launched the company bus the bicycles were her father's idea and the commuting bike is so popular now that it's giving the bus a run for its money. to fly more delicate year later to programs compete with each other in a way but 1st it's the type i passed when we started with bicycles and 2012 some people switched from the past to the fire of course that had an impact on sustainability it's a big bus with room for $55.00 so for only 5 people that has a new pet so we're looking for work a full solution is so frightening us all small the vast bustle figuring out the best solution to. my team is brother christie and schneider is the managing director he's especially keen on the idea of self driving buses and he's been considering purchasing 2 or 3 of these buses they can operate with or without
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a driver this small and economical and each person could travel a different route. every concept is always going to need to be updated and modified we're putting a lot of thought into what the future. look like it's. self driving buses might be the wave of the future but this now does need a quick a solution a nearby company recently started offering its workforce a carpooling service using many classes 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. but your venice for right. for our 9 seats and 9 of us before we leave my place at 630 so.
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people can now leave their cars at home. for the schneider company it's 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 it's the bike scheme that's getting all the attention. who will win the competition and receive a year's free lease on their bike when mona when his come out on top the moment of truth is here. was when we found that our original goal unstrung placed 20000 kilometers of driving we've done that many times over we've put in over 400000 kilometers. yes i live a while here probably ready to find out who the winners are. the moment was close. by. the 3rd winner is money well his
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or congratulations and good luck this upcoming season coming 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 2 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 it's one of the world's best bike cities even the head of amsterdam. but isn't content to rest on its laurels it's continuing to invest in is a tip projects. originally from australia can if undone now cause the netherlands
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home she'd 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 thirty's. i've never cycle. i tried to cycle once i didn't know what i was doing 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 france nip he's going to take me on a tour of the taste but not required if you want to learn about cycling through your trip i would like ok enjoy your year to be about the view my job is to teach
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anyone who wants to learn how to ride safely in traffic really i'm coming from here . 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. another idea to make biking more fun a smart and playful traffic light could feel which connoted in 2017. the turtle tells riders to slow down to catch the green knight a rabbit means pedal hard ok kelly yeah this car for you so no chance of getting green walk. across traced new bike paths and bridges are sprouting up to give cyclists the fastest and most convenient creates. this new bridge is even heated in the winter so that it doesn't that. it's happening and you can see that in
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a city like you today it is in the example and like houghton of course there are but are cities who are really thinking from how do we get from being a car city to be a washable city we. traced it is continuing to invest in a car free future. my. latest mega project cost more than $30000000.00 euros. the main railway station is now home to the world's largest by kharaj. and plans are underway to remove even more cars from the city center. a lot from her dog is you trace deputy mayor responsible for transport and mobility when we build these kind of beautiful parkings people are going to really go to psycho just because the facilities are there so it's it's demonstrates the mobility that we
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like. the treasure is growing and doesn't 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 hasn't always been a world class bike city. like in many other countries in the 1950 s. and sixty's 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
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residential developments are also doing their part for a lot fun who dunk reducing car traffic is a priority a new district with 6000 welling's isn't 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 there's really no fast mobility in sight this area. the residents of already undertake half of all journeys by bike the deputy mayor wants to increase that. human beings should be central in the city that's what we are building the city around and not of cars and in death since it's a historical change and we try to undo all the damage that's been done been done in
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the fifty's and sixty's and seventy's. leave and on her way home the route takes her along a lovely cycle path it's 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. truckdriver overcomer is still waiting for a load of freight otherwise he'll have to drive an empty truck 500 kilometers to call in. at the company's headquarters all over the book is trying to prevent the empty run he's on the cargo next online platform looking for
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a suitable order. so he spotted something picked up in a location not too far from where overcoming it is waiting. one click and he has the job. missed us all call forth so that truck's now been taken care. of the order is coming through for monday 35 powered cages and pallets for drilling and so we can get moving. over congo got the additional load he'd hoped for it's along his planned route and his truck has enough room for it thanks to intelligent freight coordination he's avoided an empty run and kept an unnecessary truck off the road it's a win for the logistics company the roads and our environment. back in hamburg hove. is pleased. although the logistics industry was skeptical at 1st that's changed. some 8000 companies with more than
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120000 trucks have registered with his platform. the larger the network grows the more efficient it becomes cutting down on even more empty runs. i mean. 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. if all 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. but what could be done about the traffic taking over our cities. again we can live to the netherlands for an.
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leave undone and her family live in the town of heart and outside. before living here she could hardly imagine doing without a car but in house and she does everything by pike. the right into a house 3 minutes. and. card to chase around to our house 10 minutes some people don't understand how why you would get in the car to do the shopping 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.
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it's a lot of writing every way it's a kilometers back and forth. still better than the car yeah because a car is not really that good for the nature and it's just so more independent they come out of school and i know they can get themselves to one place to another place i don't have to shop around them they're independent they can make decisions for themselves and they just feel. they feel good in the world in other countries i just heard that they all just have cars and like you just have to go in a car and not on a bike. just like. in 2018 houghton was voted the netherlands best bicycle city around the world the 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
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there hasn't been a fatal cycling accident here in 40 years houghton's bicycle commissioner. is a friend of kylie's. you know how to. go on they never have to stop. for traffic. not for trains nothing airplanes. overflying birch. for her next article kylie wants to read. because on how houghton became a bicycle city i'm going to she's 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 here to taste it decision was made to build a new community here with a very special traffic concept that is the result almost 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
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life. charlotte had come with. a community with a car is an afterthought a community with room for people who live here your friend is living over there and you want to go to visit them. by bike it is. safe to manage by car impossible this is a barrier you have to go out take the shitter road and driving driving driving. by. there's the family that. people can still drive and house in but it's never the fastest option that makes the decision to travel by bike easy and that's why the share of journeys made by bike here is the highest in the world. some people say that if the netherlands
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is the heaven for cyclists then out in is the heaven of heaven. i believe it was the right incentives we can leave our cars behind like bike friendly communities and new mobility infrastructure company passes and cheap or even free public transport. this transformation won't happen overnight but there are people and places that have paved the way for us.
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