Trucking industry faces challenges.Trepins, Dagmar
The importance of truck drivers in the transportation industry cannot be overstated. Every item that we consume, be it food, clothing, or electronic devices, has likely been in a truck at some point. Despite the advent of other modes of transportation like rail, air, and sea, ...
FedEx has invested in the artificial intelligence platform Vue.ai to make smarter supply chains and become the single unifying AI platform for large enterprises to “build entire vertically integrated stacks that are relevant to their industry.” Earlier, FedEx and Microsoft partnered to develop AI ...
A new year can bring several unknowns, especially in transportation and logistics, which are navigating increased volatility and operational pressures. To help those within the industry prepare for the year ahead, we sat down with several industry experts to get their thoughts on capacity, oper...
The environmental costs of herding are partly exported elsewhere through the import of fodder, much of it from overseas, and trucking of water (Figure16). This compromises assessment of the costs, the local region not being a closed ecological system regarding herding activities. The locally unsust...
This is especially true in the automotive industry and in other transportation modes, include aircraft. Autonomous aircraft, however, are even further down the road than driverless automotive and trucking systems. Interestingly, there has been no discussion of AI-assisted R&D budget creation in the ...
Let’s simplify this: Speed increases are like trucking freight. When the cargo carried becomes heavier, the engine needs to be upgraded. The greater the engine displacement, the greater the fuel consumption, and the higher the engine price and fuel expense. Let’s take optical modules...
The global supply chain continues to be volatile in a post-covid world. Importers must face and overcome challenges that include fluctuating rates, fluctuating available space and equipment, significant delays, trucking shortages, and more. Most recently, at Dedola Global Logistics, we’ve helped ...
The environmental costs of herding are partly exported elsewhere through the import of fodder, much of it from overseas, and trucking of water (Figure16). This compromises assessment of the costs, the local region not being a closed ecological system regarding herding activities. The locally unsust...
Cultured meat involves producing meat from animal cells, not from slaughtered animals. This innovation has the potential to revolutionize the meat industry, with wide implications for the environment, health and animal welfare. The main purpose of this paper is to stimulate some economic research on...