Benefits That Serve Us All

with two to three times the current farebox income, and more with a full-fledged system

A Transit System That Grows…

People want to get places, and they want to get there fast. Right now, you can only find transit that goes far and fast in the largest of cities, where there are enough people to create demand. Someone has to pay for a growing transit network.

Transit Delivery adds demand throughout the day, throughout the city and suburbs—the key to ever more frequent transit service. The system is paid for with new customers whose packages don’t “mind” moving at night.

A Carbon Negative Delivery System

Most consumer goods can be delivered without adding to the planet’s huge carbon problem at all! Deliveries can utilize electric buses and Light Rail Vehicles in conjunction with electric-assist cargo bikes. Transit Delivery does that for sure, but it also builds out the transit system to a higher quality, with greater frequency, attracting more commuters. There will be fewer trucks on the road, and fewer cars, too. It is a carbon negative system.

Building More Bike Routes

Economics 101. It’s so very basic: wherever you see demand, supply follows. Massive numbers of packages can be moved with train cars that are often quite empty at night, and trains are the most efficient of all land transportation vehicles. That flow can continue on bike paths and routes that are also typically empty at night. Extra funds from the ever-growing demand for e-commerce act as a user fee for using the transit and bike systems. Those funds pave the way for expanded transit, but also serve to build out new and better bike paths and routes.

City planners have long recognized that a world-class city must have a great transit system. Over time they have come to realize that it also means having great bike and pedestrian systems.

Building New Infrastructure…

Tulips Transit Delivery is the opportunity to move millions of pounds of packages off the road and onto rail, where the weight is easily handled. What is more important is the opportunity to move tens of millions of pounds of trucks off the road.

and maintaining what we already have

Take a look at the many delivery trucks in your neighborhood, especially the ones with four tires in the back to hold the extra weight. They are gradually but surely wearing down our streets. We’re not only paying with the diesel exhaust and the extra congestion—we are also paying for the roads that are not built for this kind of wear and tear.

Trucking companies know this, and all local and national departments of transportation know it, too. Roads break down due to heavy trucks that can do thousands of times more damage than a car. That’s why trucks have weight restrictions for bridges and roads—because they are ones doing most of the damage.

Health Benefits from
Transit Delivery

Transit Delivery decreases diesel exhaust that can cause serious health conditions like asthma and respiratory illnesses and can worsen heart and lung disease, especially in children and the elderly, according to the EPA.

Adding more bike routes makes it easier for people to get around and get exercise…and fresh air.

Added Safety and Security

It may seem contradictory to state that having autonomous vehicles moving around a transit station could promote safe and secure travel. But AVs are equipped with cameras and sensors that, under some circumstances (yelling, pushing, etc.), could provide surveillance to discourage violence.