Transportation planners have had many successes in the recent past in managing flows on transport networks with Transportation Demand Management (TDM) strategies. These include: staggering hours of work to level out demand across longer periods of the day, road pricing strategies, and Intelligent Transportation Systems (giving travellers better information like those pixelly signs you see on the highway). However, on the freight side, there have been fewer TDM initiatives, especially in the North American context. Here, I am proposing a strategy that is specifically targeted at reducing the empty miles travelled in urban areas by North American Truckload carriers.
This strategy is explained in the following video. This presentation shows how the construction of Trailer Drop Yards can be promoted by governments to reduce the empty miles travelled along highways in urban areas.
If you would like a copy of this presentation, please contact me at paul.jakubicek(at)gmail.com.
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