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Commercial freight transportation businesses rely on data, intelligence, and novel solutions for operational efficiency. Transport Topics technology coverage investigates available technologies, real-world applications of business solutions, and the strategies necessary for advancement. News topics focus on the latest applied science, and issues range from autonomous vehicle and robotics innovations to management software, tracking and transparency, data analytics, blockchain, and the internet of things.

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Trump, Chao Make Pitches to Revitalize Infrastructure

With support from Congress, critical freight routes and structurally deficient bridges would be repaired and modernized under the Trump administration’s $1 trillion, 10-year infrastructure funding plan, the president and his lead transportation adviser argued last week.

June 12, 2017
Technology

Born-again BlackBerry: Canadian Icon Hopes to Ride Trucks to Growth

A visit to trucking firm Titanium Transportation helps explain why BlackBerry's stock is once again a darling in Canadian markets, having soared 70% in two months.

June 9, 2017
BusinessTechnologyAutonomous

Volvo Develops Self-Steering Truck for Farm Use

Volvo Trucks developed a self-steering truck to assist Brazilian sugar-cane growers in harvesting their crops.

June 8, 2017
BusinessTechnologyLogisticsAutonomous

How a Technological 'Tsunami' Is Shaking Up the Supply Chain Industry

Technological advances are hitting the industry like a giant wave, Paul Dittmann, executive director of the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee, said.

June 8, 2017
GovernmentTechnology

Federal Highway Administration Partners With Inrix to Measure, Monitor, Report Health of Road Networks

Traffic data from Inrix Inc., a Kirkland, Wash.-based global provider of car services and transportation analytics, will soon be helping to shape the federal government’s thought process on highway and driver issues.

June 8, 2017
BusinessTechnologyLogistics

How Mercedes Plans to Recapture Its Early Lead in Robo-Cars

Three decades ago, an experimental Mercedes-Benz van managed to steer, brake and accelerate on its own. But after the technology was refined enough to put an S-Class sedan through its paces on a highway around Paris in 1994, it was largely set aside as commercially unviable.

June 5, 2017
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Editorial: Growing Pains From Progress

With East Coast ports beginning to welcome the largest containerships capable of passing through the recently expanded Panama Canal, trucking will soon feel the effects of this new era in shipping.

June 5, 2017
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipment

Tire Makers Work to Develop Product Lines That Promote Greater Fuel Efficiency

Tire makers say they continue to develop more fuel-efficient products ahead of tighter greenhouse gas emissions standards.

June 5, 2017
BusinessTechnologyAutonomous

Waymo Working on Self-Driving Truck

Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving car unit, Waymo, is working on developing self-driving trucks, the company said June 1.

June 2, 2017
BusinessTechnologyAutonomous

Japan to Finalize Strategy for Self-Driving Trucks, Delivery Drones

TOKYO — Japan aims to finalize on June 9 plans to allow package delivery by drone sometime around 2020 and the commercialization of self-driving trucks by 2022, as it scrambles to breathe new life into its corporate sector, sources told Reuters.

, May 31, 2017