Road transportation accounts for most of the freight transportation in the EU, with trucks responsible for 71.3 percent of all inland EU freight movements. The trucking industry in the EU is facing several challenges and Selfdriving Trucks (SDTs) seem to be a promising solution to its problems....

Truck operations have recently become an important focus of academic research not only because road freight transport is a key part of logistics, but because trucks are usually associated with negative externalities including pollution, congestion and traffic accidents. While the negative...

This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U.S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was required to hold an occupational license from a...