UberEATS: friend or foe?

Walther Ploos van Amstel
2 min readJul 18, 2019

It is impossible to imagine our streets without meal delivery services anymore. In the Netherlands, consumers get more than 300 million meals delivered this year. There are more than 50,000 meal deliveries in Amsterdam every evening.

The growing army of delivery bikes and scooters from Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat don’t respect any traffic rule. Driving through red lights, over the sidewalks, all in a hurry. The results: many dead and injured meal delivery drivers, often without insurance.

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Walther Ploos van Amstel

Dr. Walther Ploos van Amstel is professor in CityLogistics and Urban Technology at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.