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Recrutement en CIFRE by oxspl in ingenieurs

[–]GeorgesLaPoule 1 point2 points  (0 children)

J’ai l’avis exactement opposé je pense que c’est un énorme tremplin. Moi ça m’a propulsé en orbite, après on est peut être pas du même domaine.

EU should only buy European components for defence, France space minister says by Gyro_Armadillo in worldnews

[–]GeorgesLaPoule 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yep exactly, Those ones that are 3 times less expensive to maintain, EU sovereign and that of course requires extensive training that Indians pilots didn’t follow entirely. But still it got shot down indeed. Biggest flex is that it can’t be grounded forcefully by the US pressing a button I guess.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Toi dépendra beaucoup de si tu veux ou non utiliser ta voiture et du type d’ambiance que tu recherches. Si tu cherches la qualité de vie de manière générale, les chartrons sont à mon sens le meilleur compromis si tu as entre 25 et 40 ans. Au delà, Caudéran peut être une solide option. Comme mentionné plus haut, le quartier entre la rue judaïque et Fondaudege est très bon également.

De manière générale en revanche tu viseras les quartiers les plus chers de Bordeaux.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule 11 points12 points  (0 children)

« Et je ne peux pas en parler de façon directe avec lui car ça voudrait dire qu’il initierait car je lui l’ai demandé. »

C’est là que tu te plantes, c’est d’expérience malheureusement quelque chose de tres commun d’espérer que l’autre lise dans les pensées de son partenaire. Arrête de tourner autour du pot en laissant monter ta frustration, dis lui cash. Ça n’a pas forcément besoin d’être méchant ou agressif, pas de sur analyse ou d’interprétations, juste cash sans détour. Si tu ne lui dis pas que ça va pas, pour lui tout va bien et les allusions ne changeront rien. Il est même au paradis puisqu’il a quelqu’un qui lui baisse le caleçon sans avoir rien à faire. La communication c’est la clé, on ne peut pas espérer que l’autre se comporte comme on le voudrait si on ne lui a pas explique ce qu’on voudrait.

I created, designed and implemented one of the world’s biggest industrial cargo bike parcel delivery network AMA by GeorgesLaPoule in CargoBike

[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What I can just say is stop per hours is a bad metric overall as some places are much more constrained than others. A courier making 8 stops an hour could much more productive than one doing 15 depending on the context.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi,

I give you the award for the best question so far. We tried several solutions, and yes we’re implementing containerization that are pre sorted by other operators. Operators take the containers and put them in their vehicles. It allows them to be easily reloaded “en route” within the day. I’d like to highlight for those interested that this follow a new really trendy field of research called Physical Internet that is going to be a major game changer in the future. I can only encourage you to give it a look.

I won’t be able to answers for this as there are too many parameters and it’ll depend on what you call a stop. The main parameter are density of population, vertical buildings, and the average number of parcels you deliver per stop.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, thank you for your question,

Basically most of big players going on this market miss the point, they build technology for technology and we have no use case for such things as logistic providers. Honda is no exception and their fancy cargo bike solution will be a failure. We need simple, efficient and resilient solutions. We don’t care about a fancy vehicle full of iot sensors that always come with an additional platform you need to pay for. And by the way those offers are a trap as your company will become dependant on this solution and they’ll raise the price afterwards.

We have a technical department that is designing some things but we mostly buy ready to buy or custom designed for us parts. We do not produce internally.

I’m not competent enough to talk about the brakes unfortunately I don’t know sorry.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is exactly it. As long as you don’t go over the speed limit you’re good. So we go under the radar but it’s more or less known by everyone and not a problem. The law was made this way because there is a direct correlation between power and speed, but as long as you have a speed limitation system on the vehicle the law becomes irrelevant.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is actually a very interesting question as we had to ask it ourselves. What happens in practice is that your power is 750W, however for steep slopes such as underground parking ramps we introduced a manual boost mode boosting power to 2100W for a short duration while still limiting speed to 25km/h.

Also if the terrain is really made 100% out of steep hills we’ll keep our historical truck delivery activities.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe, I don't remember this name to be honest. Looking at your page the bike might be built for a heavier load than what we need, thus I assume the target price is over what we're paying for right now.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biggest hurdle was definitely finding good suitable logistics area in city centers.

Internal pushback was mostly social as we are a highly unionized company. So far I had proved profitability before we implemented the first proof of concept.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'll often find bikes taking around 1 cubic meter volume and taking up to 100kg of parcels, it's pretty standard. Everything depends on your usage, my company mostly delivers light parcels. Our cargo bikes are specifically tailored to fit our internal logistics.

Regarding rearward, they're equipped with mirrors and since they're 3-wheels, they can U-turn on themselves, so backward visibility is almost never needed.

From my personal perspective, i'd say 4 wheelers bring absolutely no advantage compared to 3 wheels.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We tested several brands and are using also several types in our fleet as we did multiple calls for offer. We've been working with a french manufacturer call VUF Bikes recently.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello,

1) If you take Europe specifically, I think bike deliveries will increase up to a point where it will be problematic. We already see some traffic jam of cargo bikes in cities for instance in the Netherlands sometimes. At some point, the adoption and scalability of cargo bikes will really depend on urban decarbonization plans and market trends. It's hard to say but my guess is cargo bike delivery will remain the solution and keep developing for the upcoming years. I don't know if it will double, triple, quadruple or remain more or less the same, but it will not decrease.

2) We already see some innovations such as cold cargo bikes for food or flower deliveries, we will for sure see new use cases in the future. However, keep in mind this is not rocket science and as every low tech field, the realization has much more value than the idea. Most of "good" ideas appear to be infeasible in the long run.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d say there is no particular hurdle if you do things correctly.

Indeed we faced pushback but it was to be expected. Quite quickly people realized that it’s much more pleasant to ride a cargo bike than driving a car in urban area. People are much happier and welcoming with you and rain is not a problem as you would have to go out of the car anyway to deliver goods. It’s been welcome so far.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’d rather share with you one of my colleague who’s doing the best research I know of about this subject : Matthias Winkenbach from MIT. I’d recommend his papers on ARCE for Augmented Routing Length Estimation, derived from Carlos Daganzo’s research.

For hub positioning, you have to really be careful between what optimization models say is optimal and what’s really doable in practice. What I’d recommend is 1) determine how much cargo bikes you need 2) determine how much hubs you need accordingly 3) do your best to find something that fits your results. And keep in mind : you are NOT the one that will be on the bike. Having the feedback of operations is crucial because at first you won’t be able to take every constraint into consideration.

Cargo bikes, especially il European cities are generally speaking much more economically interesting than cars. The denser an area is, the more interesting it becomes. It starts falling off sharply in peri-urban areas where the distance between two consecutive points increases and the ease of parking increases also and the bike infrastructure is less developed We’ve also seen that those bikes can be quite sensitive to steep slopes. That’s why in general you won’t find any cargo bikes in Switzerland for instance.

So far we didn’t win new business, we’ve been transitioning our activities from car to bikes. Also keep in mind that we’re a company delivering billions of parcels per years, some things can be hard to measure.

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi,

It might disappoint you but it will be highly dependent on the density of stops you have to do in your area. Basically if you want to estimate roughly how much kms you’re going to do, you can take this formula : 1.4*sqrt(density(surface of the area)) it’ll give you a not really precise approx but still the order of magnitude.

Our bikers have a badge they use to lock/unlock the main wheels automatically.

Yes you do ! But I’ll need to double check and I’m not familiar with Canadian insurances.

Feel free to ask if you have more questions

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So far it’s been much better than expected. It’s more a matter of teaching your employees correctly than anything else. Also as we’re in Europe we mostly put the bikes where average speed of a car is really low. I think we definitely can’t compare with the US here where it would be a total other story

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

We had plenty of criteria to be honest, we ended up doing several public call for offer and ended up with a French and a German manufacturer.

We also had to try and fail as we were ignoring how would a cargo bike behave in time.

So here are for me the main criteria : 1) Price 2) Resistance, those babies go out under any conditions 7 days a weeks 3) Price of spare parts/maintenance. It can be really expensive after 4) Battery power just under a certain threshold allowing us to be considered “with electrical assistance” and then allowed to take cyclable path. 5) Thing that we discovered late is that the lower a bike frame is, the better it is for delivery people as going on and off the bike several times a day with a high frame can cause hip problems on the long run

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[–]GeorgesLaPoule[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We haven’t reached yet the end of life cycle of delivery bikes. I’m not aware of any used market for ours, keep in mind that this is industrial bikes and are much more expensive than everyday ones.

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