Have you ever been in a city? Practically every street has stores that need deliveries. Does every street get a tram track?
I think a good use would be to go from an industrial area to another, or to a cargo hub.
That is apparently what this tram did, although normally heavy rail would fill this role.
Trains to distribution center on outskirts of city, pneumatic tubes from distribution center to every home and business.
The answer should be yes. In fact we should dig up the bicycle lanes to make way for tram tracks.
Or maybe make deliveries on cargo bikes.
I believe the tracks for the long distance trains should go to warehouse or distributions whatever then cargo bikes would deliver them locally.
Have you ever seen how much stuff your typical courier has in their van?
Sounds like a pretty niche use case, there’s not many factories in the middle of cities that have a tram line running to them.
And at 15 tonne per car, 7.5 in the end cars, the payload isn’t particularly impressive either.
This also didn’t deliver product to the final destination, which is what most urban trucks are doing.
but something like this would get product coming-in from outside a metro area close enough to high-density population and business centers to where smaller EV delivery vehicles or postal services (they already go door-to-door each day) can do the ‘last-mile’.
It really sounds like you’re inventing a use case for this technology, to be honest. Most logistics centres are on the outskirts of the city, and linehaul vehicles are loaded and unloaded there, having something like that in the city centre would be a very inefficient use of space.
It also wouldn’t reduce the vehicle movements inside the city by much at all.
