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Author: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue The resilience of transportation is challenged by congestion and the need to add capacity and better manage existing infrastructures. 1. The Enduring Challenge of Congestion Congestion is likely to remain one of the ongoing issues in transport geography because unprecedented demands for transportation are generated by

Source: Background map from Google Earth. Ports are significant consumers of land involving terminal operations and port-centric logistics activities, which are generating large volumes of cargo flows and the need to store this cargo temporarily. The port of Tianjin is the third-largest in the world in terms of tonnage and

Source: ICC International Maritime Bureau. As long as there has been trade, there has been an incentive to plunder the valuable commodities transiting along long-distance maritime trade routes. The conventional response was for ships to travel in convoys, escorted by military ships if the trade was of sizable value, with

There are several tools behind the setting of national logistics policies. Developing sustainable niche logistics activities with infrastructures and services promoting unique comparative advantages, including green logistics strategies, often represents an overlooked potential. The most common strategies involve:

There are several tools behind the setting of national logistics policies. Digitalization strategies such as freight portals (single windows) and port community systems provide crucial support to the decision-making process. The most common strategies involve the following:

Source: adapted from I-95 Corridor Coalition. The private sector plays a significant role in changing public policy, which is mimicking the changes that have taken place in the strategies of private transport corporations. The public policy environment is thus shifting towards the consideration of transport as a set of interacting

There are three major types of transport regulations:

Authors: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Dr. Theo Notteboom and Dr. Brian Slack Transport policy tries to make decisions concerning the allocation of transport resources while transport planning is their effective implementation. 1. Policy and Planning The terms policy and planning are used very loosely and are frequently interchangeable. However, substituting one

While sustainable goals in transportation can be vague and elusive, it is for the transportation industry to address them through regulatory compliance and innovations. This covers two interrelated dimensions related to modes and infrastructures. Modes. The main dimension concerns the manufacturing and disposal of conveyances. This can involve the use

As a concept, sustainable transportation is intricately linked with developing sustainable transport modes, infrastructures, and operations. Three major dimensions are considered: Sustainable transportation fits within the sustainable development goals (SDG). Some SDGs are core to sustainable transportation, such as: Other SDGs are more secondary to sustainable transportation, including (7) energy