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  2. Last mile (transportation) - Wikipedia

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    Last-mile delivery is an increasingly studied field as the number of business-to-consumer (b2c) deliveries grow, especially from e-commerce companies in freight transportation, and ride-sharing companies in personal transportation. Some challenges of last-mile delivery include minimizing cost, ensuring transparency, increasing efficiency, and ...

  3. Last mile (telecommunications) - Wikipedia

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    The last mile, or last kilometer, in the telecommunications, cable television and internet industries refers to the final leg of a telecommunications network that delivers telecommunication services to retail end-users (customers). More specifically, last mile describes the portion of the telecommunications network chain that physically reaches ...

  4. Indian logistics firm Xpressbees becomes unicorn with $300 ...

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    Xpressbees, an Indian logistics startup that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, has more than tripled its valuation to $1.2 billion in a new financing round. The Pune ...

  5. Local loop - Wikipedia

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    Local Loop. In telephony, the local loop (also referred to as the local tail, subscriber line, or in the aggregate as the last mile) is the physical link or circuit that connects from the demarcation point of the customer premises to the edge of the common carrier or telecommunications service provider's network.

  6. The Last Mile (prison rehabilitation program) - Wikipedia

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    The Last Mile (prison rehabilitation program) Turn 2 U Inc. dba The Last Mile (TLM) is an Oakland, CA based 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide opportunities for personal and professional growth for justice-impacted individuals through education and technology training. [1] The Last Mile is celebrating more than a ...

  7. OnTrac - Wikipedia

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    Scott P. Nelson, COO. Services. Regional carrier. Ground Service. Same-day Service. Weekend Delivery. Website. ontrac.com. OnTrac (formerly LaserShip) is a last-mile delivery company that services the continental United States. [1][2][3][4] Founded in 1986 as LaserShip, the company is based in Vienna, Virginia and has sorting centers in 31 states.

  8. XPO, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    XPO provides dedicated truckload, LTL, truck brokerage, managed transportation, last mile and freight forwarding in Europe. [43] The company also manages multimodal solutions, such as road-rail and road-short sea combinations. [44] 1,000 new drivers were hired in the U.K. and Ireland in 2022. [45] [46]

  9. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

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    An Act to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.