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WASHINGTON — Modern urban life presents special challenges for food transportation and distribution, including constant replenishment of stock to recipients who are often in challenging delivery locations.

The head of the International Longshoremen’s Association plans to fight efforts to automate terminals as part of the negotiations beginning in February on a new contract to cover 65,000 dockworkers. However, a panelist at the 2017 Transportation Research Board conference described it as inevitable.

WASHINGTON — While freight transportation has undergone enormous change over the past quarter-century, even more is coming and very quickly, driven by demanding customers and an amazing array of technology that might actually allow carriers to satisfy shippers.

WASHINGTON — A group of transportation thinkers discussed transformational technologies at a Transportation Research Board panel on Jan. 10.

WASHINGTON — Freight considerations are rarely of primary importance for legislators and others in government, but there are some public officials who appreciate the great importance of transporting goods and use that understanding to recruit business development.

WASHINGTON — Delaware’s Jennifer Cohan, Louisiana’s Shawn Wilson, Pennsylvania’s Leslie Richards, Tennessee’s John Schroer, and Utah’s Carlos Braceras convened for a Transportation Research Board panel Jan. 10 to discuss what keeps state DOT leaders awake at night.

WASHINGTON — Four of the six women who run state departments of transportation and two who used to do so took part in the first of two Transportation Research Board roundtables on leadership on Jan. 10.

WASHINGTON — Autonomous truck technology holds the potential to enhance safety, efficiency and productivity in the trucking industry, but its successful deployment hinges on regulations that help rather than hinder it, said Chris Spear, president of the American Trucking Associations.

WASHINGTON — In his final address to the transportation community Jan. 9, outgoing U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx emphasized the importance of freight movement.