“Without trucks, Australia stops” is now a fact of modern life. But when all costs are considered, road freight is an expensive way of moving large amounts of freight. And, as shown by ongoing fatal crashes…
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Freight
Displaying 21 - 25 of 25 articles
Disappearing Arctic sea ice has brought new opportunities for shipping, and placed the top of the world squarely on industry and politicians’ agendas. When the bulk carrier MV Nordic Orion last week ferried…
Over the next 50 years the world will increasingly confront a dilemma. On the one hand, the global economy and local lifestyles depend on the mobility of people and goods. On the other, that mobility depends…
Truck transport accounts for roughly 25% of energy used in the global transport sector, making it a substantial contributor (2.6%) to worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. As concerns about greenhouse gas…
Articulated trucks such as semi-trailers and “B-Doubles” are involved in about 30% of fatal road accidents on the Pacific Highway. As the number of trucks carrying freight between Sydney and Brisbane increases…
Job Board
-
Assistant Editor - 1 year cadetship
-
Program Development Officer - Business Processes
-
Executive Dean, Faculty of Health
-
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Earth System Science (School of Science)
-
Sydney Horizon Educators (Identified)
Top contributors
-
Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
-
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center, University of Washington
-
Professor and Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst
-
Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Enterprise and Competitiveness, University of Birmingham
-
Project scientist, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
-
Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Birmingham
-
Sustainable Logistics Researcher, Vienna University of Economics and Business
-
Associate Professor in the Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
-
Professor of Marine Transport and Logistics, Newcastle University
-
Professor of Operations Management, Interim Director of Keele Business School, Keele University
-
Director, Urban Freight Lab, University of Washington
-
Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
-
Professor Bahman Shabani, Discipline Leader, Mechanical Engineering Discipline, RMIT University
-
Co-director, STEPS (Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways), University of California, Davis
