Apr21No Comments
Beyond Freeways: Commerce, Community, and Contention along Los Angeles’s 710 Corridor
How a freeway crushes communities, how residents are fighting back plans to make it even bigger, and what alternatives have been presented to yet more of the same…. Read the full article
Jan27No Comments
UK’s Largest Container Railfreight Depot Just One Year From Opening
Dubai Port London Gateway is a £1.5bn development covering 560 acres on the north bank of The Thames on the site of the former Shellhaven refinery near Stanford Le Hope. It has, literally, the capacity to change the Railfreight container business and...
Nov26No Comments
To keep L.A. and Long Beach’s ports trucking
It takes 10,000 professional truck drivers to move all the goods that come into the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. And it’s no wonder. Our two ports handle 40% of all goods imported to the United States. A lot of the jobs generated by the...
Sep24No Comments
The Golden Age of Arabian Rail
Until recently the Arabian Peninsula had long been a backwater for rail development. Despite hosting the now-defunct Hejaz railway made famous by the exploits of Lawrence of Arabia, until 2009 the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (the GCC) –...
Sep10No Comments
Megacities are the New Logistics Frontier
Delivering freight in a large, congested city such as Boston, U.S., with an estimated population of 636,000 people, is no easy task. But imagine the obstacle course that confronts drivers in São Paulo, Brazil, with a population of 20 million people....