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Q3: Connectivity is comprised of several layers, including physical, virtual, and financial networks. Is multilayer analysis important? How to obtain the necessary data? How can new technologies help? A multilayer approach to connectivity is important since it enables to understand the dynamics of its core components and how they interact

Based on your experience, what have been the most important impacts of connectivity? How can we best assess the impacts of connectivity? In prior decades the focus was mainly on developing infrastructures and intermodalism, which were mutually self reinforcing. In my opinion, the container is likely to have been the

As part of a discussion by the Global Infrastructure Connectivity Alliance (GICA), I have articulated an entry on the relevance of connectivity. It seeks to provide elements to the question “In your view, why does connectivity matter? And for whom?” The Relevance of Connectivity

Added a new entry on the concept of mobility as a service, which is mainly the development of platforms able to collect and organize mobility and give options to users. This tries to coordinate the offerings of several transportation service providers. Digital Mobility as a Service

Updated and redesigned the map.about the connectivity pattern of global maritime bottlenecks. https://transportgeography.org/?page_id=950

Through bad design and vehicle use the usage of the curb for deliveries can be highly disruptive. This photo is illustrative of the problem. https://transportgeography.org/?page_id=10828  

Tried to articulate the possible levels of transport automation for both vehicles and terminal facilities such as ports and distribution centers. While the different levels of vehicle automation is well known, I have so far seen no attempt to build a corresponding categorization for terminals and distribution centers. This is

Port Technology International has published a short piece where I resume my take on the wider context of port automation. Although automation is a factor of port efficiency improvements it may on the long run be a driver of decline in the demand for shipping.

Will be delivering a seminar this week (May 17) at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics on the topic of city logistics. http://ctl.mit.edu/events/thu-05172018-1200/freight-landscape-city-logistics

I updated the page about the configuration of a port container terminal to reflect the emerging paradigm brought by automation. Many terminals are adopting to perpendicular block stacks serviced by automated wide span gantries. Conventional and Emerging Container Terminal Configurations