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Transport visions : freight and logistics: the seventh of eight reports from the Transport Visions Network Beecroft, Mark ; Lyons, Glenn ; Chatterjee, Kiron

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London Landor Publishing Ltd, 2003; Transport Visions reports 7, Description: 65 sISBN:
  • 1899650318
Subject(s): Online resources: Abstract: This report presents the Network's views on the future of freight and logistics. It begins with a consideration of the current and expected future context for freight and logistics. It considers present policy approaches to the problems of goods movement before introducing the Network's own ideas and solutions which are developed within the contexts of three different scenarios for the future of society: Going Global; Nation State; and Local Living. Each scenario considers how freight and logistics might operate under a given future state of society. The report concludes with an overview assessment of the outcomes of scenario development.
Item type: Reports, conferences, monographs
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This report presents the Network's views on the future of freight and logistics. It begins with a consideration of the current and expected future context for freight and logistics. It considers present policy approaches to the problems of goods movement before introducing the Network's own ideas and solutions which are developed within the contexts of three different scenarios for the future of society: Going Global; Nation State; and Local Living. Each scenario considers how freight and logistics might operate under a given future state of society. The report concludes with an overview assessment of the outcomes of scenario development.