This is my Industrial Design thesis project from 1998. The goal was to develop a system integrated, city-scale vehicle for the specific purpose of distributing small parcels quickly, that augments the near-future paradigm shift where parcels are organized, sorted and tracked digitally.
By 2003, it was becoming obvious that the delivery industry had to make a shift toward alternate fuel sources and the digital, barcode based organization and tracking system we see today. For this Thesis project, it was assumed that a new system would be in full deployment and perhaps farther along than its current implementation. The context for this vehicle was a future industry where distribution centers use robotics to sort parcels onto conveyors that then load them onto vehicles, in the order of delivery. Hydrogen stored at distribution centers would circumvent the distribution issue of alternate fuels and keep these fuel-cell vehicles running cleanly and efficiently.
