Project44 is shifting beyond freight visibility into booking via a new product that uses carrier location knowledge to determine when truckload capacity is soon to be obtainable for freight brokers to e-book. A partnership between Transporeon and Roambee to marry telematics information with sensor-visibility data is a sign of the rising need for shippers to handle condition-sensitive shipments amid a congested international setting. A funding round into Paris-based Wakeo is additional proof that traders believe the market for multimodal visibility isn’t slowing down, and that there is room for a number of players. Forwarding software vendor Magaya sees potential in offering forwarders the ability to raised handle allocations on behalf of their shipper clients. Researchers from RIT’s Center for Detectors are poised to contribute to the highest priority outlined in the decadal survey recently released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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