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Solving Franklin’s Freight Dilemma: Cure or Prevent Disruptions?
Road to resilience. Walmart Stores and the MIT FreightLab have collaborated to create a tool that reduces truck transportation planning time and lowers costs. Benjamin Franklin advised that “an ounce...
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Collaboration the Key to Unblocking Megacity Streets?
Can city governments help to improve megacity logistics? Picture a truck delivering product in a traffic-choked megacity and physical obstacles such as a maze of one-way streets come to mind. But...
View ArticleA Clearer Path to LTL Carbon Footprints
Companies have devoted a lot of effort to reducing the carbon footprint of freight transportation as part of their sustainability programs. But one element of logistics operations, less-than-truckload...
View ArticleIt Takes More Than an Uber Prefix to Reinvent a Business
The success of the taxi-like Uber service has spawned many start-up attempts in related (and other) areas. In fact, it seems that any time a new app puts service providers in direct contact with...
View ArticleWhat Price Truck Driver Shortages?
A shortage of truck drivers has bedeviled the logistics industry for so long, that it’s difficult to imagine a time when filling driver vacancies was not a problem. What is also difficult to fathom...
View ArticleInching Closer to Solar-Powered Vehicles
Freight vehicles powered by the sun are a long way from becoming reality, but solar technology could have an impact on commercial transportation in the not too distant future. A solar electric car...
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