“Moving Freight Forward: Emerging Technologies, Stakeholders, and Impacts”

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Sarah Dennis- Bauer
Post Doctoral Researcher, Urban Freight Lab
University of Washington

“Moving Freight Forward: Emerging Technologies, Stakeholders, and Impacts”
The transportation sector is rapidly evolving into a high-tech industry, raising questions around feasibility, safety, public health, operational efficiency, and system resilience. These shifts raise new challenges for stakeholders in the safe and efficient adoption of emerging technologies. The freight sector faces additional pressures related to emerging technologies, such as workforce impacts, infrastructure and vehicle constraints, and a growing demand for fast and reliable goods movement.
This talk will explore a series of studies examining the feasibility, challenges, and co-benefits of emerging transportation technologies, highlighting the freight sector and the importance of stakeholder engagement. I will highlight real-world feasibility and technology perception studies, the development and examination of a planning-level freight routing and geofencing tool, and a model to estimate the future impacts of e-commerce freight technologies under different levels of market penetration. I will highlight the opportunities and complexities of integrating emerging technologies into transportation systems, identifying key directions for