Does transportation access affect the ability to recruit and retain logistics workers?

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This chapter examines the relationship between logistics industry workers and access to industry jobs. Over recent decades the location of logistics jobs has shifted as the industry has consolidated into larger warehouse and distribution centers. We conduct a case study of the Los Angeles Region and identify the locations of jobs, existing workers, and potential workers—those who would be qualified to work in the industry. We find that logistics jobs are held by a greater share of race/ethnic minorities than the workforce as a whole, but the share of women is much lower than the workforce as a whole. Logistics jobs are more spatially clustered than workers, and job access by car is orders of magnitude greater than access by public transit. Public transit would have to be greatly improved, perhaps by using new platform-based services that could operate more efficiently in low density environments, in order to become a viable option for accessing logistics jobs. © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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