The President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz de Ayusoplan to use the Madrid metro service early morning to transport parcels from the outskirts to the city centre. It wouldn’t be the first time this has been done. Shanghai set something similar in motion. But with more advanced technology. This method has also been applied in London.
So far, thousands of packages They enter the big cities by road in delivery vans. The Madrid executive is betting that part of this journey will be made by metro so that they are ready for delivery in the morning.
Metro employees would be responsible for guarding the packages and transport companies would pick them up and deliver them to their destination. It would be done using a different metro than the passenger metro, which would make specific three-minute stops to load the packages. Some carriers doubt that this will work. “There is a breakdown in the metro and believe me, everything is falling apart,” adds one of them.
It is a pilot project announced on Thursday, a logistics experiment that aims to reduce the traffic of vans at the entrances to the city and to reduce polluting emissions and traffic jams.
