For urban last-mile delivery, micromobility vehicles offer advantages over cars, vans or trucks, such as lower costs, fewer dangers, and less pollution and congestion. Those potential benefits are highlighted in a whitepaper Uber commissioned from WSP, a Sydney-based engineering consulting firm, this spring.
Without intervention, an expected 78% growth in urban deliveries by 2030 will result in 36% more delivery vehicles in the world’s top 100 cities, nearly one-third more emissions, 21% more congestion and 11-minute-longer commutes, it states, citing a World Economic Forum report from 2020.