I just think of all those extra car/bike journeys.
if the worker ever combine any trips it’s better than those people driving themselves. multi-stops are marginally more likely than you might expect because people usually work multiple gig apps, but nobody knows the actual data and it’s definitely worse than a socialist version of the same service.
I think there’s probably more than there used to be because there’s more variety but everyone in this thread should remember that food delivery isn’t anything new. The difference now is it’s been decoupled from the restaurants. I don’t know if the pay is any better or worse than it used to be for food delivery people. I imagine it’s always sucked.
Anyway the trend I’ve seen around is e-bikes, so I don’t know that more journeys means much if they aren’t using ICE vehicles.
Sadly in the UK we don’t have a huge amount of e bike adoption. Most landlords won’t allow tenants to charge them at home due to the percieved fire risk. So every delivery driver is riding a petrol scooter.
In China basically every bike except a hog or a superbike is electric.
yeah idk i figure people would’ve been going themselves or ordering regular delivery like pizza or chinese. pretty hard to work out net (excess?) trips without doing actual surveys
if the worker ever combine any trips it’s better than those people driving themselves. multi-stops are marginally more likely than you might expect because people usually work multiple gig apps, but nobody knows the actual data and it’s definitely worse than a socialist version of the same service.
I appreciate that the is some pooling. But I wonder at how many additional journeys there are now because of these apps.
I think there’s probably more than there used to be because there’s more variety but everyone in this thread should remember that food delivery isn’t anything new. The difference now is it’s been decoupled from the restaurants. I don’t know if the pay is any better or worse than it used to be for food delivery people. I imagine it’s always sucked.
Anyway the trend I’ve seen around is e-bikes, so I don’t know that more journeys means much if they aren’t using ICE vehicles.
Sadly in the UK we don’t have a huge amount of e bike adoption. Most landlords won’t allow tenants to charge them at home due to the percieved fire risk. So every delivery driver is riding a petrol scooter.
In China basically every bike except a hog or a superbike is electric.
yeah idk i figure people would’ve been going themselves or ordering regular delivery like pizza or chinese. pretty hard to work out net (excess?) trips without doing actual surveys