by Walther Ploos van Amstel
In Portland, Oregon (USA), entrepreneur Franklin Jones, the owner of B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery, has embraced the future of urban transport. Never mind that the future closely resembles early 20th-Century Britain. BBC reports on the strong growth of cargo bikes in urban freight.
With the rise of e-commerce, consumer preferences have grown increasingly important in the formerly business-oriented parcel-delivery market. Large e-commerce players, as well as various start-ups, have identified last-mile services as a key differentiator. The variety of delivery options and the perceived quality of the delivery service are major decision-making criteria for online customers and hence …