Green Transportation Logistics: The Quest for Win-Win Solutions

✍ Scribed by Harilaos N. Psaraftis (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 577
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 226
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the state of the art in green transportation logistics from the perspective of balancing environmental performance in the transportation supply chain while also satisfying traditional economic performance criteria. Part of the book is drawn from the recently completed European Union project Super Green, a three-year project intended to promote the development of European freight corridors in an environmentally friendly manner. Additional chapters cover both the methodological base and the application context of green transportation logistics.

Individual chapters look at the policy context; the basics of transportation emissions; Green Corridors basics; the concept of TEN-T (Trans-European Network); Benchmarking of green corridors; the potential role of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies); Green vehicle routing; Reducing maritime CO₂ emissions via market based measures and speed and route optimization; Sulphur emissions; Lifecycle emissions; Green rail transportation; Green air transportation; Green inland navigation and possible areas for further research.

Throughout, the book pursues the goal of “win-win” solutions and analyzes the phenomenon of “push-down, pop-up”, wherein a change in one aspect of a problem can cause another troubling aspect to arise. For example, speed reduction in maritime transportation can reduce emissions and fuel costs, but could require additional ships and could raise in-transit inventory costs. Or, regulations to reduce sulphur emissions may ultimately increase CO₂ elsewhere in the supply chain. The book takes stock at the various tradeoffs that are at stake in the goal of greening the supply chain and looks at where balances can be struck.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
The Policy Context....Pages 1-39
Transportation Emissions: Some Basics....Pages 41-79
Green Corridors Basics....Pages 81-121
Green Corridors and Network Design....Pages 123-160
Benchmarking the SuperGreen Corridors with Green Technologies....Pages 161-204
ICT in Green Freight Logistics....Pages 205-241
Green Vehicle Routing....Pages 243-265
Green Maritime Transportation: Market Based Measures....Pages 267-297
Green Maritime Transportation: Speed and Route Optimization....Pages 299-349
Being Green on Sulphur: Targets, Measures and Side-Effects....Pages 351-386
Critical Analysis of Air Emissions from Ships: Lifecycle Thinking and Results....Pages 387-412
Green Rail Transportation: Improving Rail Freight to Support Green Corridors....Pages 413-454
Emissions and Aviation: Towards Greener Air Transport....Pages 455-478
Emissions and Inland Navigation....Pages 479-515
Directions for Further Research....Pages 517-542
Back Matter....Pages 543-558

✦ Subjects

Operation Research/Decision Theory; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Environmental Economics