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Shifting Policymakers’ Perspectives: Transportation’s Vital Role in Society

A promising trend is taking shape among policymakers around the future of mobility. It’s a shift in perspective to better understand how inextricably linked transportation policies are to people’s lives and to the vitality of society’s long-term economic, equity, and sustainability goals.

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Canada Invests in Supply Chain Digitalization, the U.S. Should Take Notice

Two weeks ago, Canada announced a C$50 million ($37 million in U.S. dollars) investment in supply chain digitalization that promises to significantly improve efficiency in the movement of goods, a strategy that the U.S. should take note of. 

topics: Digitalization, Freight, supply chain
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5 Trends That Could Transform How People Get Around Their Communities

Improving battery technology, innovative vehicle design, increased infrastructure connectivity, and changing attitudes toward transportation have all laid the groundwork for a potential revolution in how people get around the places they live and work.  These five trends could transform how people get to jobs, shop, meet up with friends, and get their kids to school. But only if policymakers choose to support these trends and allow for greater innovation that increases the mobility choices people have when planning their trips. 

topics: Mobility, shared mobility
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Eyewitness to Transformation:from Tunes to Transport

Twelve years ago, I left one industry undergoing a profound technology transformation – music - and joined another: automobiles.

topics: autonomous vehicles, autonomy
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After TradeLens: Where Does the Global Shipping Industry Go from Here?

Freight sector industry leaders widely considered TradeLens to have been a disruptive force across supply chains, making important strides in advancing the digitalization of global trade.

topics: Digitalization, Freight, supply chain
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Acting While We Talk: Freight Efficiency Improvements Benefit People and Planet

The UN Climate Summit—COP27—currently underway in Egypt is a mammoth climate gathering where lots of committed people discuss a lot of complicated things.

topics: COP27, Freight
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The UK Brings Its Shipping Rules Out of the Victorian Era and into the Digital Age

Lawmakers in the United Kingdom will soon bring much-needed change to trade laws that have remained largely the same since Queen Victoria sat on the throne, bringing the U.K.’s shipping rules into the electronic age and paving the way for the digital transformation of global trade.  

topics: Freight, supply chain
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Did California Just Kill Shared Micromobility?

California is undermining its own stated goals to shift to sustainable transportation—and regulators around the world should take note to avoid making similar mistakes.

topics: shared mobility
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This Week In AVs: Domino's, Nuro Team Up To Deliver Pizzas; Cruise Expands To Dubai; And More

SAFE’s weekly roundup of the top news in autonomous vehicle innovation and deployment.

topics: autonomous vehicles, autonomy, AVs
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This Week In AVs: Luminar Partners With SAIC To Build AVs; TuSimple Files For IPO; And More

SAFE’s weekly roundup of the top news in autonomous vehicle innovation and deployment.

topics: autonomous vehicles, autonomy, AVs
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Leveraging Data To Pivot From Mobility Innovation To Transportation Transformations

As optimism on new transportation technologies enters a trough of disillusionment, Evangelos Simoudis reminds us in his new book that transportation transition is a multidecadal project.

topics: autonomous vehicles, autonomy, AVs