Rob King, co-founder and CEO of Zedify, talks about his experience running a cargo bike delivery firm. We cover:
- Creating better cities via zero emission deliveries
- Delivering from urban micro-hubs
- Decoupling trunking and last mile delivery
- Consolidating consignments for local delivery
- Partnerships with 3PLs
- Recycling and reverse logistics
- Case study of battery recycling
- Practical aspects of delivering via cargo bikes
- Cargo bike capacity
- Short stem mileage
- Technology making cargo bike delivery work
- In-house developed route optimisation software
- Carbon efficiency of cargo bikes compared with electric vans
- Amazon's foray into cargo bike delivery in the UK
- Rider satisfaction
- Managing rider shifts
- Evri's trial with Zedify
- Future of last mile delivery
- Differences in cargo bike delivery in different markets
- Cleaner, safer city streets
- Infrastructure for cargo bike delivery
