Transportation Resources
Book Review: Trucking Country by Shane Hamilton
Reviewed by David HC Correll To me, Shane Hamilton’s book, Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy reads like watching a classic horror movie. Before you even begin, you know that the titular monster is coming. And as the movie progresses,...
Drilling Deep: Tapping into the brains of a leading college to aid trucking – Podcast withFreightWaves
NEW FreightWaves Podcast featuring FreightLab’s David Correll.
Event Spotlight: In Search of Alternatives to Truckload’s Fragile Freight Contracts
By Chris Caplice, Ken Cotrill and David Correll When a shipper and a trucking company contract to transport goods at a given time and rate, there is no guarantee they will meet the agreement’s terms. The loads may never materialize or the carrier may not have the...
MIT FreightLab Q4 2020 Co-Directors’ Letter
Welcome to the first to be quarterly update from the MIT Freightlab!
Research Spotlight: PhD Candidate Angela Acocella in Conversation
PhD Candidate Angela Acocella in conversation with MIT FreightLab Co-Director David Correll about her recently published paper, "Elephants or Goldfish: Carrier Reciprocity in Dynamic Freight Markets". Who are “elephants” and who are “goldfish” in your research? We’re...
FreightLab Book Review: “Sweatshops on Wheels”
BOOK REVIEWSweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking DeregulationBy Michael BelzerOxford University Press (2000)Reviewed by David HC Correll Michael Belzer wants you to know two things about American trucking: (1) it hasn’t always been this way; and (2) it...
State of the Art in Transportation Contracts
On November 3 2020, the MIT Freightlab convened an open virtual session entitled, State of the Art in Transportation Contracts”. The goal of the session was to introduce the FreightLab’s 2020-2021 research program, which focuses on innovations that expand the...
Future Freight Flows: Scenario Planning Toolkit
The Scenario Planning Toolkit is designed to help transportation planners in any organization design, plan, and run a Scenario Planning Workshop. There are two types of material contained here: Guidebooks and Workshop Collateral.
Forecasting Freight Transportation Rates
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center welcomed Chris Caplice, PhD, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL), as the second speaker in the Transportation in the Age of Artificial...
An Introduction to Scenario Planning Video
This animated video can be used to help an audience understand what Scenario Planning is. It complements (and can replace) the Introduction to Scenario Planning PPT.