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The situation of the European freight-transportation industry is critical. A report of the World Economic Forum (WEF) presented disturbing numbers: 24 % of vehicles run empty, and the rest are only 57 % full, which results in an overall capacity utilization of only 43 %. The abatement potential in terms of both cost and carbon is vast.
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Saenz, M.J., Ubaghs, E., Cuevas, A.I. (2015). Introduction. In: Enabling Horizontal Collaboration Through Continuous Relational Learning. SpringerBriefs in Operations Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08093-2_1
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