A pilot project examining how app-based food-delivery workers navigate urban risk in a predominantly car-based delivery environment. This is a comparative extension examining similar questions to GIGRISK-Brussels, where cycle logistics and cooperative delivery models are more established.

The Kitchener-Waterloo pilot is meant to provide a useful contrast case to GIGRISK-Brussels. The European discussion around cycle logistics takes place in dense urban environments where bicycle delivery is feasible. In Kitchener-Waterloo, by contrast, deliveries are often performed by car because of:

How does courier work differ when deliveries are primarily car-based rather than bicycle-based?
How do navigation practices change?
How do workers assess and manage risk differently?

What structural conditions make bicycle delivery difficult in mid-sized North American cities?
Under what conditions could cycle logistics become viable?
What infrastructure changes would be required?

Would a cooperative delivery model face the same challenges in Waterloo as in Brussels?
How does urban geography shape the feasibility of cooperative logistics?