Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 1: Scenario Planning for Freight Transportation Infrastructure Investment (2013) / Chapter Skim
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34 Future Freight Flow Scenarios Four scenarios were created based on the structural axes of level of global trade and resource availability. 3.1 Scenario Overviews Global Marketplace (high global trade and high resource availability)
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Future Freight Flow Scenarios 35 3.2.1 Global Marketplace Narrative U.S. firms have established and maintain intense collaboration with companies across the world.
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36 Scenario Planning for Freight transportation infrastructure investment moved within the United States. Retail sales are predominantly conducted online, even for grocery vendors.
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Future Freight Flow Scenarios 37 the level of zero emissions, is now a prerequisite for doing business. Manufacturers with similar needs have grouped together to create large-scale facilities, known as production clusters, where they find relief in numbers.
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38 Scenario Planning for Freight transportation infrastructure investment The United States undertook a re-domestication of manufacturing to NAMEC countries, with a clear emphasis on promoting processes that take advantage of local resources and talent. Migration among NAMEC nations has become fluid.
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Future Freight Flow Scenarios 39 in turn lead to the creation of a new industry sector of pure digital design firms that develop and sell small-run or custom designs. The third technological advancement was the widespread adoption and use of virtualization.
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