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Could these be for More than Amazon?
Amazon is prototyping delivery lockers at 7-Eleven stores. This sounds like an interesting idea, but it seems a shame to me to only use them for Amazon. Why not let customers sign up to get all their UPS, Fedex and other deliveries at facilities like this? It would do wonders for reducting last-mile delivery VMT…
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Mobility and the needs of freight
A discussion of the potential for freight-specific road infrastructure.
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Tiger II grant winners in Oregon and SW Washington.
The USDOT has just announced the winners of the Tiger II Discretionary Grant program; and four projects in Oregon and SW Washington will receive funding.
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The Long Coffee Supply Chain
This diagram was developed out of a stakeholder interview for the sustainable freight task force I just served on. It’s illustrative that even if you get the last mile to be very sustainable, there’s a lot of complexity in moving even a very simple commodity. click on image for a larger view
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One of the Keys to Sustainable Freight: Full Trucks
I’m serving on a small working group that is trying to develop some high-level ideas for how the City of Portland could encourage more sustainable freight. It’s a little bit of a mind-bender, because all of my urban design sensibilities push for smaller vehicles. But in fact from a fuel efficiency perspective, there is a…