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NEW MOBILITY

Freight Transport

and Logistics -

Likely Trends of New Normal

Due to the on going epidemic, the global
economy has been severely disrupted
including the supply chains and the
markets. According to the Institute of Supply

Management (ISM) nearly 75% of companies
are already reporting supply chain disruptions
in some capacity because of the transportation

restrictions and one in six report adjusting
revenue targets downward. Prof. Sanjay Gupta,
Ph.D, Professor of Transport Planning and
Head, Urban Planning Department, School
of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi,

analyses the global and national impacts of
COVID-19 on freight transport.

ransport plays a very vital Freight transport, the backbone of cent of urban land use. A city not
role in the development the economy, connects markets, only receives goods but also ships
of a country’s economy; suppliers, and customers. Goods them: some 20 to 25 per cent of
in determining overall transport accounts for 10 to 15 truck-kilometres in urban areas
Tproductivity, quality of
percent of vehicle equivalent are outgoing freight, 40 to 50 per
life of citizens, access to goods kilometres travelled in urban areas, cent are incoming freight, and the
& services and the pattern for 2 to 5 per cent of the employed rest both originates from and is
distribution of economic activity. urban workforce, and 3 to 5 per delivered within the city.

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