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Shipment sizing for autonomous trucks of road freight
PurposeUnprecedented endeavors have been made to take autonomous trucks to the open road. This study aims to provide relevant information on autonomous truck technology and to help logistics managers gain insight into assessing optimal shipment sizes for autonomous trucks.Design/methodology/approachEmpirical data of estimated autonomous truck costs are collected to help revise classic, conceptual models of assessing optimal shipment sizes. Numerical experiments are conducted to illustrate the optimal shipment size when varying the autonomous truck technology cost and transportation lead time reduction.FindingsAutonomous truck technology can cost as much as 70% of the price of a truck. Logistics managers using classic models that disregard the additional cost could underestimate the optimal shipment size for autonomous trucks. This study also predicts the possibility of inventory centralization in the supply chain network.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings are based on information collected from trade articles and academic journals in the domain of logistics management. Other technical or engineering discussions on autonomous trucks are not included in the literature review.Practical implicationsLogistics managers must consider the latest cost information when deciding on shipment sizes of road freight for autonomous trucks. When the economies of scale in autonomous technology prevail, the classic economic order quantity solution might again suffice as a good approximation for optimal shipment size.Originality/valueThis study shows that some models in the literature might no longer be applicable after the introduction of autonomous trucks. We also develop a new cost expression that is a function of the lead time reduction by adopting autonomous trucks.
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Alma's way. Season 2, episode 6, Mofongo on the go/Alma scoots around
Alma and Eddie want to open a mofongo food truck, but they spend so much time on decorating their cardboard truck and writing raps for their customers that they forget the most important thing: the food. And Alma thinks she's pretty fast on her scooter, but why isn't she faster than Andre? Isn't she the World's Greatest Scooter-er?
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Big truck's road adventure
Roads are busy places, especially with characters like Big Truck exploring them. In this charming fiction title, readers meet Big Truck and the machines he calls his friends, including tankers, dump trucks, log trucks, garbage trucks, and more. Readers will delight in this titles fantastic, bright photographs and accessible text, which help reinforce the beginning concepts discussed. Playful rhymes and an info-vocabulary feature make this volume a perfect choice for young readers and for adults and children to share and explore together.
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Robot power!
When Crusher builds robots that go out of control and run wild in Axle City, it's up to AJ, Gabby, and Blaze to stop them.
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Affective machines or the inner self? Drawing the boundaries of the female body in the socialist romantic imagination
This article explores two conflicting aesthetics of the female body in post-Stalinist Soviet science fiction. One represented women of the communist future as explorers of the space frontier in assemblages with machines, testing the cultural border between the female and the technological. Another appealed to the mysterious female nature as the Other of human culture, pushing forward the understanding of socialist progress as a masculine project. This article argues that both aesthetics grew within the cultural phenomenon of socialist Romanticism, which emerged in the mid-1950s as a reaction to Stalin-era quasi-Enlightenment rationality and its dominant style of socialist realism.
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