In a way, Postmates is like Kosmo 2.0 for the mobile world, but Kosmo was also notorious for having couriers that trafficked in illicit substances.
Analysis of trajectory data is the key to a growing number of applications aiming at global understanding and management of complex phenomena that involve moving objects (e.g. worldwide courier distribution, city traffic management, bird migration monitoring).
At St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., Robert Moore, a courier, got stuck in traffic while trying to pick up platelets for a cancer patient.
Like a bicycle courier zooming into midtown traffic with failing brakes, Kozmo.com needs some major repairs if it hopes to survive.
Some of the more enterprising Liverpool fans hired motorcycle couriers to beat the traffic.
As a young cycling enthusiast new to the metropolis, I watched with awe as these couriers knifed through static traffic, gybed down alleyways and surfed the gaps between buses, often wild-eyed, high on car fumes and the expletives of seething pedestrians.
As it brings on people interested in serving as couriers, it's arranging for them to cover specific areas so couriers can skip the city's infamous traffic and just focus on collecting local packages.
These movements were masked through a deception campaign by the Soviets, including the decrease of radio traffic, camouflage, operational security, using couriers for communication instead of radio, and active deception, such as increasing troop movements around Moscow.
Cihan Eroglu spends his days winding deftly through the erratic maze of Istanbul traffic on his motorbike for a courier service.
The proposed model may enable a reduction in traffic congestion and environmental problems caused by courier services in urban areas.
