Navigating the Challenges of Delivery Traffic in Düsseldorf: Four Possible Solutions

For once, car, bike and train passengers in Düsseldorf have a common problem. If you use one of the new wide cycle paths on Bilker Allee or Fischerstrasse, you will come across a truck with a warning light flashing. Anyone coming by car via Kölner or Steinstrasse will lose the right lane because there is a parade of delivery vehicles. And if you’re sitting in the tram, you can hear the driver ringing until the bell wire glows because the half or rear of a truck is parked on the rails.

Delivery traffic in this city has grown massively. First there were parcel couriers and pizza services, then came drinks services and the vehicles of internet supermarkets. When they stop somewhere, they often do so in lanes, bike lanes or rails.

On April 1st, the new charges for public parking came into force. The Düsseldorf city leaders and the black-green council majority have thus implemented a central point of their parking space concept. Further steps such as the price increase for the resident parking permit will follow. The six-month attempt to replace a lane on the Luegallee in Oberkassel with a cycle path is also related to this.

In all cases, you have to think about and solve one issue: delivery traffic and its tendency to the second row. Four ideas:

1. More and digitally controlled delivery zones