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This study offers a narrative literature review on transportation mode integration in logistics distribution, focusing on the interplay between infrastructure development, digital technologies, and collaborative logistics platforms in enhancing multimodal systems. Drawing from databases like Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, the review highlights how infrastructure serves as the foundation for logistics flow, digital tools facilitate real-time coordination and route optimization, and collaborative platforms support stakeholder alignment, especially in urban settings. Despite advancements, regional disparities in infrastructure, digital capacity, and policy enforcement hinder logistics efficiency. Empirical evidence shows that AI-supported multimodal logistics can reduce delivery times by up to 25% and transportation costs by 18% in dense urban areas. While developed countries leverage innovation and strong frameworks, developing regions struggle with technological access and policy inconsistencies. Sustainability is a recurring theme, with digital tools contributing to emissions tracking and carbon reduction. The study calls for integrated policies, infrastructure investment, and scalable digital solutions, particularly for underserved regions. Key recommendations include strengthening collaborative networks, enhancing digital skills, and implementing region-specific strategies. This review contributes to the global dialogue on sustainable logistics and outlines future research directions to address persistent gaps in multimodal logistics integration.

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements The author is grateful to the two anonymous referees for their insightful comments on an earlier draft of this article. Notes 1. Self-containment, at least in urban planning terms, relates to the level of travel trips that are internal to the locality. Any locality that has a majority of all its travel trips occurring internally is deemed to be self-contained, though this assertion is not uncontested (Cevero, 1995 Cevero, R. 1995. Planned communities, self-containment and commuting: A cross national perspective. Urban Studies, 32(7): 1135–1161. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Ewing et al., 1996 Ewing, R., DeAnna, M. and Li, S. 1996. Land use impacts on trip generation rates. Transportation Research Record, 1518: 1–6. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; Healy & O'Connor, 2001 Healy, E. and O'Connor, K. 2001. Jobs and housing location in Melbourne, 1986 – 1996. The Australian Planner, 38(1): 9–15. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]). Hence, the colocation of employment, retail, leisure and residential uses to satisfy the majority of local needs are critical to self-containment. Perhaps more important, however, is the mode of transport for these trips and the provision of high quality, high frequency and highly accessible public transport offers greater sustainability gains than car use (Yigitcanlar et al., 2005 Yigitcanlar, T., Dodson, J., Gleeson, B. and Sipe, N. . Sustainable Australia: Containing Travel in Master Planned Estates. Research Monograph 9, Urban Research Program. September, Griffith University, Brisbane. [Google Scholar]). 2. Over the last decade and a half, urban commentators (McLaren, 1992 McLaren, D. 1992. Compact or dispersed: Dilution is no solution. Built Environment, 18(4): 268–284. [Google Scholar]; Cevero, 1995 Cevero, R. 1995. Planned communities, self-containment and commuting: A cross national perspective. Urban Studies, 32(7): 1135–1161. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Jenks et al., 1996 Jenks, M., Burton, E. and Williams, K. 1996. Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form?, London: Spon. [Google Scholar]; Newman & Kenworthy, 1999 Newman, P. and Kenworthy, J. 1999. Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence, Washington, DC: Island Press. [Google Scholar]; Williams et al., 2000 Williams, K., Burton, E. and Jenks, M., eds. 2000. Achieving Sustainable Urban Form, London: Spon. [Google Scholar]; Williams, 2005 Williams, K., ed. 2005. Spatial Planning, Urban Form and Sustainable Transport, London: Ashgate. [Google Scholar]) have generally used the term sustainable urban form to depict the growing debate concerning the economic, social and environmental costs of existing urban morphology. This is a manipulation of the term form and is used to describe both urban structure and the fine grained strategies of implementation, which are more correctly associated with urban form.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify traits and skills of a truck driver for sustainable transportation, develop a theoretical framework and outline further research directions. Design/methodology/approach – The present study undertakes a review of extant literature and appreciative inquiry, a quasi-ethnographic approach to identify traits and skills of a truck driver. Further, using a pragmatic approach, a theoretical framework has been developed. Findings – The study proposes a theoretical framework, which can be further used for formulating training modules for truck drivers for sustainable transportation and logistics. Research limitations/implications – The present framework needs to be statistically validated using survey data and second, the proposition of the theoretical framework needs to be tested using hierarchical regression analysis. Second, in the study the authors have used AI. However, the authors have only interviewed selected senior police officials. This may lead to bias and to further strengthen the present study, one needs to identify other regulatory authorities and human resource managers of transportation companies. However, in Indian subcontinent situation the trucks are primarily owned by unorganized sector. Hence, the owners may have five to ten trucks and this case there is no human resource manager. However, in such case an interview with truck owners may provide a useful insight. Practical implications – The study has outlined recommendations on the basis of a literature review of extant literature and appreciative inquiry. The recommendations can further help policy makers or technical bodies run by a government agencies or privately managed to develop a training module for truck drivers to meet the future challenges of sustainable transportation. Social implications – This research is related to truck drivers and their welfare as well as how they can contribute to sustainable transportation and logistics. Originality/value – This research attempts to identify traits and skills of a truck driver for a sustainable transportation and logistics, and develops a theoretical framework and outline further research directions. This particular study ventures into new domain (the role of truck driver's role in sustainable logistics and transportation).

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