City Of Fort Worth: Hillwood, TuSimple To Prepare Facilities For Autonomous Trucking

Dallas TX

26 January, 2022

5:59 PM

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Press release from City of Fort Worth: January 26, 2022 TuSimple, a global autonomous driving technology company, and Hillwood announced a collaboration this week to integrate TuSimple's infrastructure specifications into current and future industrial and commercial properties. With the expansion of the TuSimple Autonomous Freight Network, Hillwood is preparing to meet the demand for autonomous trucks by getting properties ready for autonomous trucking operations, starting with a 1-million-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility built in its 27,000-square-acre AllianceTexas development. The AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone provides partner companies access to a testing and commercialization ecosystem, freight-critical resources and partnerships essential to adopt, integrate and scale L4 autonomous trucking operations. "We partnered with TuSimple, a leader in autonomous trucking, to provide the guidance and technical parameters required to prepare this new facility for the rapid adoption and expansion of autonomous trucking operations throughout the region and beyond," said Ross Perot Jr., chairman of Hillwood. "The on-demand economy is driving a technological transformation within the logistics industry, and through our partnership with TuSimple, the MIZ will be ready to meet that demand." This new facility is intended to serve as an origin and destination facility for L4 autonomous trucks. Located just off I-35W near Fort Worth Alliance Airport and near TuSimple's major freight-partner facilities, the Mobility Innovation Zone is also in close proximity to a major distribution hub and the largest freight market in the United States. Home to the Mobility Innovation Zone and one of the nation's largest inland ports, the AllianceTexas submarket encompasses 68 million square feet of industrial facilities. View a video showing how autonomous trucking terminals work.        Photo: Alongside I-35W, AllianceTexas is home to the Mobility Innovation Zone, a one-of-a-kind infrastructure in North Texas offering mobility visionaries access to a testing ecosystem, resources and partnerships essential to comprehensively test, scale and commercialize new technologies.     Get articles like this in your inbox. Subscribe to City News.   This press release was produced by City of Fort Worth. The views expressed here are the author's own.