{"id":10454,"date":"2020-04-27T17:58:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T22:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/?p=10454"},"modified":"2023-03-03T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T20:36:14","slug":"innovative-delivery-how-far-can-we-go-with-autonomous-goods-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/innovative-delivery-how-far-can-we-go-with-autonomous-goods-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Delivery:  How far can we go with autonomous goods delivery?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article was originally posted on November 19th, 2019<br><br>Two recent articles demonstrate how autonomous vehicle technologies are beginning to penetrate goods delivery. Developments in the technologies and the potential for autonomous freight movement, introduce a host of possibilities and questions \u2013 What does adoption of new technologies mean to safety, jobs, customer satisfaction, equity and access, reliability of technologies, and environmental benefits? Links to the articles are below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.housing.wisc.edu\/2019\/11\/robot-delivery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Starship Robot food delivery at University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison.<\/a>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/delivery_robot_UW_dining.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10404\"\/><figcaption>Photo by Joel Ninmann, University Housing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aashtojournal.org\/2019\/11\/08\/ups-completes-first-commercial-drone-delivery-of-medical-prescriptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drone Home Delivery of Pharmaceuticals<\/a>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Drone_Operator_UPS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Drone_Operator_UPS.jpg 500w, https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Drone_Operator_UPS-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by UPS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally posted on November 19th, 2019 Two recent articles demonstrate how autonomous vehicle technologies are beginning to penetrate goods delivery. Developments in the technologies and the potential for autonomous freight movement, introduce a host of possibilities and questions \u2013 What does adoption of new technologies mean to safety, jobs, customer satisfaction, equity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10454"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10460,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454\/revisions\/10460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}