France: Deliveries will be tested in Strasbourg from 16 September to 26 October via seven-car Citadis trams delivered by Alstom since 2005.
The project has been organised by three French parties – the postal service La Poste, the city administration and the operator CTS – to reduce emissions from freight transport in the city through new solutions.
Every morning, a postman will deliver about a hundred parcels in the head car of a tram that runs from the railway station to the centre of Strasbourg. There, the parcels will be handed over to another postman on a bicycle, who will deliver them to the addressees. The trial is expected planned to cover another route.
There have been similar pilots in Germany in the past, but they have not been scaled up. This summer, Singapore began testing the use of metro trains to deliver mail.
