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Freight Transportation

Freight by the Numbers: Everything’s Bigger in Texas

December 1, 2021

3.3B Total freight tons transported* $3T Total worth of freight shipped* 313,000 Roadway centerline miles* 600B Truck trips annually ~39.6B Data points sorted annually via algorithm to assess freight fluidity and better understand truck parking *The Economic Role of Freight in Texas – Executive Summary published by the Texas Department of Transportation (April 2021).

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 4 Tagged With: freight, freight fluidity, Freight Transportation

Shipping Stranglehold: Pandemic Hampered Business Operations and Supply Chains in Texas

December 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic rattled industries and crippled supply chains worldwide. The results were also evident in the Lone Star State, as research by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) illustrates. Institute experts conducted research studying the impacts of COVID-19 at the Texas–Mexico border and found that the effects of the viral outbreak were felt almost […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 4 Tagged With: COVID-19, cross-border trips, freight, Freight Transportation, supply chain

Looked Good on Paper — But Blockchain Technology Is Revolutionizing Data Management, Security

December 1, 2021

As part of a classroom assignment at Harvard Business School in 1978, Dan Bricklin created the prototype for spreadsheet software. Not only did it make paper-based account ledgers with handwritten figures obsolete, but Steve Jobs credited Bricklin’s invention — dubbed VisiCalc (short for visible calculator) — with the success of the Apple IIe, the personal computer […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 4 Tagged With: blockchain, freight, freight logistics, Freight Transportation, supply chain

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