Urban Goods Transport: The Involvement Model, based on - Ants
Imagine a world in which you never walk anywhere empty-handed, because you are always taking somebody else’s stuff along. You would have been handed it by another person, and you may need to give it to somebody else along the line before it reaches its final destination. That way, Pizzas get delivered, cats taken to the RSPCA, letters taken to the mailbox, blood samples taken to the labs, etc.
This would require three things first:
A trusting population.
A system of coordinaton.
An acceptance of the system’s value.
Here is how I suggest to solve these issues:
“A trusting population”:
If every object and every person in the world had an inseparable tracking device visible to satellites, any irregularities would be trackable, and thereby discouraged.
“A system of coordinaton”:
This would work very much like a ride share database. People would input the travels they intend to make and the transport capacities available to them in a database, which would then automatically book meeting times and places for object hand-overs, possibly in multiple form to accommodate possible cancellations or other occasions of non-meetup. This could happen entirely via email and mobile phones.
“An acceptance of the system’s value”:
The population would need to see that what goes around comes around, and they would, because as much as they carry things all the time, people give them things they ordered whenever they do. If anyone is ever identified as having provided too much service, credit will be given in the shape of being excluded from the service providing loop until the balance is clear again. As this system would do away with things such as delivery vans, petrol costs, depreciation for trucks, etc., prices would go down significantly for many things, and delivery traffic would be reduced to a mere trickle.
Chris Ebbert
Imagine a world in which you never walk anywhere empty-handed, because you are always taking somebody else’s stuff along. You would have been handed it by another person, and you may need to give it to somebody else along the line before it reaches its final destination. That way, Pizzas get delivered, cats taken to the RSPCA, letters taken to the mailbox, blood samples taken to the labs, etc.
This would require three things first:
A trusting population.
A system of coordinaton.
An acceptance of the system’s value.
Here is how I suggest to solve these issues:
“A trusting population”:
If every object and every person in the world had an inseparable tracking device visible to satellites, any irregularities would be trackable, and thereby discouraged.
“A system of coordinaton”:
This would work very much like a ride share database. People would input the travels they intend to make and the transport capacities available to them in a database, which would then automatically book meeting times and places for object hand-overs, possibly in multiple form to accommodate possible cancellations or other occasions of non-meetup. This could happen entirely via email and mobile phones.
“An acceptance of the system’s value”:
The population would need to see that what goes around comes around, and they would, because as much as they carry things all the time, people give them things they ordered whenever they do. If anyone is ever identified as having provided too much service, credit will be given in the shape of being excluded from the service providing loop until the balance is clear again. As this system would do away with things such as delivery vans, petrol costs, depreciation for trucks, etc., prices would go down significantly for many things, and delivery traffic would be reduced to a mere trickle.
Chris Ebbert
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