Going Green – Experiencing the Ecomobile Lifestyle

Ecomobility Services
Community Ecologistics Services
How would residents and businesses in Kaohsiung’s ecomobility
demonstration area, Hamasen, receive or dispatch merchandise,
parcels and other goods without using their cars or
motorcycles? Kaohsiung came up with an exemplary solution.
To allow people to switch to ecomobile means of transport,
the City offered free neighborhood freight services during
the month-long EcoMobility World Festival. Two temporary
neighborhood freight service centers were established, which
were equipped with an electric van and a fleet of electric motor
scooters. Conventional vans and trucks would bring freight
to the centers, from where they would be transported by ecologistics
staff with ecomobile vehicles within the demonstration
neighborhood and delivered to the doors of the recipients.
More than forty businesses used the freight service, and
the centers provided over thirty freight services per day. •
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