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Future Transport and Logistics brief week 21 2026
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Episode notes
- The BUILD America 250 Act is transitioning autonomous trucking from a fragmented state-level patchwork to a unified federal framework, establishing national safety standards for Level 3-5 systems and accelerating the commercial use of cabless architectures.
- Severe energy shocks, including a 57% spike in AdBlue (urea) prices and significant diesel surges, have exposed the thermodynamic fragility of legacy fleets, making heavy-duty electrification a baseline requirement for operational survival.
- Breakthroughs in Koopman-based control frameworks now allow autonomous truck platoons to maintain safety and string stability despite stochastic communication delays, mathematically "filling in the gaps ...
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