International Cargo Bike Festival 2018

Experiment in Amsterdam – LEFV Battle: a practical competition with
students, teachers and researchers
The LEFV-Battle was organised for the first time in December 2017.
Two teams, each consisting of four students and two teachers/
researchers, experimented with LEFV in Amsterdam under real circumstances.
The competition started and finished on the premises
of logistics service provider Deudekom, just outside the environmental
zone. Both teams had to deliver 10 shipments in the city of
Amsterdam with three different LEFVs: an Urban Arrow cargobike,
a Stint and a Goupil. The shipments included a fruit basket, pillow,
boxes of coffee, printing paper, and a Christmas tree. The students
used the planning software of RoutiGo, which enables logistics
service providers to choose between cycling routes and car routes.
The teams experienced that cycling routes
can be much shorter than car routes. Using
the cycling path saved one of the teams 15
minutes as compared to the car route,
because of the many one-way streets.
Despite this saving, the other team won
the battle because their better score on
vehicle-efficiency.
Student, participant
LEFV battle:
“Finding the most efficient route and
navigating through the city was
challenging and fun. Being part of a
competition made it even more excited.”
Student, participant
LEFV battle:
“It was nice to experience
logistics in practice,
instead of leaning
theory all the time”
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