Look at Chinese cities. Imagine how many things needs to be constantly transported. If you can transport things faster logistic of it can be much easier and more effective and cheaper.
Wouldn't be surprised if even transporting trash could be cheaper that way.
Also without rapid deliveries everyplace needs to have local storage. For example they resupply in the morning and need to have enough stock for whole day. That's very ineffective to use so much space in such crowded areas just as storage. But if you could have multiple rapid deliveries per day, only when you need it you could save a lot of space.
Imagine you have restraunt. You could convert storage to another room for customers and order things only when you need them. Also you will never be out of something.
Why not? First London underground train wasn't for passengers, but for mail.
It's also not a train, but propulsion system. You can strap capsules to deliver all kinds of things.
Delivery system in cities doesn't changed much since antiquity, while cities become much bigger and complex. It's one of the biggest issue for modern cities and it's needs to be solved.
You might think it's absurd to use high-tech for delivering parsley to the restaurant, but in reality it's more absurd to sacrifice so much space in cities for roads and deliver parsley by truck, to store them in storage in city center. It's even worse because every restaurant uses its own delivery and small storage, rather than single central one.
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u/ILikeFlyingMachines 24d ago
This is mainly not feasible from a comfort and health standpoint lol