International Symposium on Motor Carrier Transportation (1994)

Summary: The purpose of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Symposium on Motor Carrier Transportation was to provide a forum for an international audience on motor carrier transportation issues involving government policy makers and regulators, researchers, academia, and representatives of the large truck goods industry, including suppliers, manufacturers, and motor carriers. The symposium focused on a wide range of technical, economic, safety, and environmental issues, as well as on the opportunities for greater efficiency and productivity for the motor carrier transportation community into the 21st century. The symposium was intended to foster productive communication among groups representing various disciplines in the private and public sectors whose problems and issues related to the motor carrier industry often conflict or coincide. Achieving such communication in an industry as decentralized as the motor carrier industry and among groups not accustomed to talking with one another is useful but often difficult. A major goal of the symposium was to begin fostering better communication between policy makers and the industry nationally and internationally.