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🚚 Shared Transport for Beekeepers: Cooperative Logistics for Migratory Apiaries

How groups of beekeepers pool transport for moving colonies to pollination contracts or forage sites, and the agreements needed to make it work safely.

Economics & Social Systems3DModerate60 FPS

A yard of colour-coded hive stacks feeds trucks that drive out to a pollination contract. Toggle between pooled truckloads, packed edge-to-edge across several beekeepers' colonies, and solo loads where each operator books their own half-empty truck.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Bin-packing hives from multiple beekeepers onto shared flatbeds nearly eliminates wasted pallet space, cutting the number of truck trips — and the cost per colony — compared with everyone arranging their own transport.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust the number of participating beekeepers, hives per beekeeper, truck capacity, and route distance, then toggle between shared and solo loads to compare trucks needed and cost per hive.

💡 Did You Know?

Migratory beekeeping cooperatives typically formalise pooled transport with a written agreement covering loading order, in-transit insurance liability, and how the fuel bill is split.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D yard-to-orchard truck route where colour-coded hive pallets from several beekeepers are bin-packed onto shared flatbeds, compared against each beekeeper booking their own half-empty solo truck.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install