Logistics Matters with DC VELOCITY Guest: Phil Koopman of Carnegie Mellon University on autonomous vehicle technologies; Congestion continues to plague US ports; Air freight sees ups and downs.
Our guest in this week's episode is Phil Koopman, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and an expert on autonomous vehicle technologies and safety. Koopman discusses the current state of autonomous technologies and how soon we might expect cars and trucks that can operate without a driver on our nation's roads. He shares the limitations of the technologies and the important challenges that remain to be solved to fully automate vehicles.
Things don't look to improve any time soon at our nation's ports. Ships continue to back up and products remain in holding patterns along their journeys to consumers. It looks like more of the same, as the expectations are that supply chain bottlenecks and delays will extend well into this year. Is there any end in sight?
The air freight market has tried to absorb some of the capacity constraints caused by ocean delays, but there are limitations as to how effective those measures can be. We discuss the current state of air freight and whether conditions may improve in coming months.
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Articles and resources mentioned in this episode:
- Carnegie Mellon University's Electrical and Computing Engineering Department
- Ocean freight logistics faces volatile start to 2022
- Truck production could be slowed by pandemic labor shortages, ACT warns
- Expect continued volatility in air freight market, Flexport says
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