Meeting materials and presentations are now available from the 2022 MAFC Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with summer MAASTO meeting. Des Moines, Iowa. July 26 and 27th, 2022. https://midamericafreight.org/index.php/2022-mafc-conference-and-annual-meeting/
Author: Mid-America Freight Coalition
With the continued tension between infrastructure needs and available funding, Colorado’s Senate Bill 260 looks to a least partially remedy the situation through a unique tax that captures the infrastructure use by home delivery, courier and driver services. For example, each Amazon or UPS delivery will cost an additional 27 cents. For services like Uber […]
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Join MAFC in Des Moines, Iowa, at the MAASTO Annual meeting to talk freight! Session topics include freight vehicle electrification, freight corridor resiliency, soy and ag transport, FACs, and a MAFC working session. After 3-years of virtual meetings, the group is looking forward to meeting face to face and we hope you will join us in De […]
The Biden-Harris Administration announced a new initiative to improve supply chain data flow that could provide information to support freight corridor and multimodal planning. FLOW, the Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW) is intended to speed up delivery times and reduce consumer cost through greater coordination and information sharing across key logistics and industry players.
A first in the nation, MAASTO states have collaborated to increase truck weights across the region for emergency divisible loads during declared disasters. See the AASHTO Journal article (at this link) for details on the regional agreement. The MAFC project report can be found under MAFC Research (here).
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What do current supply chain challenges mean for truck parking shortages? While the world of logistics is seeing new pressures exacerbated by an “…online shopping boom, lower inventories and federal mandates on driver rest…”, truck parking and related driver safety issues persist. A recent article from Bloomberg highlights continued truck parking issues in light of continued supply […]
Meeting materials for Session #2 of the MAFC Annual Meeting are now available. To view and download materials, go to the 2021 MAFC Virtual Annual Meeting event page.
Many major cities around the world were founded on marine transportation corridors. St louis lays claim to this history and is working towards revolutionizing container freight movement in the region. Read about the promising and long-awaited Container on Barge (COB) development for the Mississippi River in the KSDK.com article “New St. Louis port bringing container ships […]
The 2021 MAFC annual virtual meeting examines transitions and opportunities in urban freight movement, freight resiliency, freight technologies, and automation. Session one with Dr. Anne Goodchild, Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Director, Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center at the University of Washington was held November 4th, and is available under the […]
Please join the MAASTO freight professionals at the MAFC annual meeting session featuring Dr. Anne Goodchild of the University of Washington, Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center. Dr. Goodchild will address – Urban Freight: Transitions and Opportunities Thursday, November 4th at 2:00 pm CDT.