Converting to electric cars is going to take time. With transport being Australia’s fastest-growing source of emissions, action on all fronts – road, rail, sea and aviation – is needed.
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As California goes on regulating air pollution, other states often follow – including the Golden State’s ambitious goals for cleaning up emissions from trucking.
The rise of e-commerce means billions of packages are delivered in the US each year. That creates traffic and pollution, but urban freight researchers are finding better way to get goods to customers.
Air pollution from traffic causes the deaths of thousands of Australians. A swift transition to electric vehicles will save lives – and save households and businesses money in the long run.
The movie franchise ‘Mad Max’ contains a cautionary tale about our over-reliance on fuel for vehicles. This dependence has been highlighted by the ‘freedom convoy’ and its relationships with fuel.
Large numbers of trucks not only add to road construction and maintenance bills, they also make our roads less safe and more congested and add to noise and air pollution.
Ford’s electric F-150 pickup won’t roll off assembly lines until early 2022, but the company has received thousands of preorders already for a vehicle aimed at the mass market, not eco-buyers.
COVID-19 vaccines have very specific storage requirements that make shipping a difficult task. Two ideas – fulfillment centers and cross-docking – could help overcome some distribution challenges.
We’re on the road again. Getting enough COVID-19 vaccine to where it’s needed in a given time frame is the next logistical hurdle.
The cold supply chain keeps vaccines fresh during distribution, but the current system is nowhere near large enough to distribute the billions of COVID-19 vaccines that the world needs.
Vehicles in Canada are big, heavy and guzzle a lot of gasoline.
Rising e-commerce means more delivery trucks and urban gridlock. Lockers at transit centers, where carriers can leave packages for people who live or work nearby, are a potential solution.
Low pay pushes drivers to work extremely long hours, causing more crashes and more traffic deaths.
Most road fatalities involving heavy vehicles are caused by the other party, not the truck driver. We need to educate road users on how to be safer around trucks.
For 30 years, it’s been the best-selling vehicle in the US.
A rethink in the approach to road freight transport safety is urgently required to reduce fatalities and injuries.
Elon Musk’s new Semi has platooning capability - where multiple trucks commute in a line with a single driver in the lead vehicle. But could it work in Australia?
Australia should follow the lead of other nations like New Zealand and Switzerland and increase the charges for heavy vehicles on roads, proportionate to the amount of wear and tear they cause.
If the federal government abolishes the Road Safety Renumeration Tribunal, a minimum pay to improve the safety of truckers is less likely to ever be addressed.
Was Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese, right to say that evidence shows better pay for truck drivers will improve safety?
Top contributors
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Professor, Economics, Wayne State University
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center, University of Washington
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Professor Bahman Shabani, Discipline Leader, Mechanical Engineering Discipline, RMIT University
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development), Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University
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Associate professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Penn State
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Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Director, Urban Freight Lab, University of Washington
