Public procurement as driver for more sustainable urban freight transport

Quak, Hans; Nesterova, Nina; Kok, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2019.06.045

Cited by 10 publications

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“…Their results emphasise that the participatory method and improved insight for the procurer's contribute to broad environmental assessments, enhancing green procurements and to a more equitable assessment of alternative technologies. With Rotterdam and The Hague as examples, [32] studied public procurement as a driver for more sustainable freight transport. They state that it is hard to determine the exact number of trips that are generated from procurements, and that procurements are first applied as an administrative activity, and not as an activity to meet policy.…”

Section: Transition Through Green Public Procurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Public Procurement for Accelerating the Transition towards Sustainable Freight Transport

Karlsson

Meland

Bjerkan

et al. 2022

WEVJ

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Requests for emission reduction in the freight transport sector will be more intense in the coming years. One possible strategy to reduce emissions from freight transport is through utilising zero emission vehicles, which requires substantial investments both by transporters and by authorities. This paper examines how green public procurement (GPP) can be used to push the market in an environmentally sustainable direction. For this purpose, interviews with both public authorities and freight service providers are conducted. The results show that GPP is considered a useful tool for public authorities to both boost the uptake of zero emission vehicles and to share the investment costs with freight service providers. However, our study shows that there are differences between small and large municipalities. Moreover, to succeed with GPP, public authorities must prioritise such tasks in their daily routines through political decisions and strategies. Additionally, barriers related to financial possibilities are crucial to handle, as public support schemes are important to reduce costs for all involved stakeholders. Altogether, our paper shows that with the right tools and willingness among both public and private stakeholders, GPP can contribute to the use of more environmentally friendly solutions in the freight transport sector.

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Section: Transition Through Green Public Procurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Public Procurement for Accelerating the Transition towards Sustainable Freight Transport

Karlsson

Meland

Bjerkan

et al. 2022

WEVJ

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“…Sustainability criteria can, for example, be related to the production and consumption of energy (e.g., green energy), the composition of products (e.g., the circular economy), labour rights, and social return. When it comes to transport, BuyZET distinguished three categories for which sustainable criteria and objectives can be applied [21]. Category 1 includes the organisation's own fleet such as lease vehicles or garbage vehicles owned by municipalities.…”

Section: Sustainable Procurement and The Role Of Change Agentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Procurement Power to Accelerate Sustainable City Logistics: Lessons from Change Agents in The Netherlands

Balm

2022

Sustainability

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The role of large procurers (receivers) in improving city logistics is gaining increased attention among scientists and professionals. Knowledge, guidance, and agreements in this field have led to more willingness, ability, and opportunities among receivers to contribute to efficient and zero-emission city logistics when buying goods and services. Change agents play a vital role by initiating, managing, and implementing the change towards more sustainable processes within organisations. The experiences of change agents in The Netherlands show that the number of initiatives in which governments, universities, businesses, and health care institutions (jointly) use their procurement power to accelerate sustainable city logistics is growing. However, the development towards realisation and scaling in practice is going slowly. For this research, we asked change agents in The Netherlands to discuss together the circumstances and actions that support progress towards sustainable city logistics using the buying power of large (clusters of) organisations in cities. Qualitative data has been collected in three workshops, covering 10 initiatives in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, and Nijmegen. A list of twelve lessons has been derived and compared with the existing literature. Their experiences confirmed that change is supported by knowledge networks, objectives that motivate stakeholders, a strategic vision, a baseline measurement, social pressure, monitoring and communicating progress, market dialogue, and a broad set of measures. The research also provides new recommendations for change agents. They are advised to form a ‘seed-group’, involve a high-ranking ambassador, and actively promote knowledge sharing among peers to increase involvement. Lastly, it has become clear that knowledge on financial feasibility is scarce. This is because every business case is made-to-measure and is barely quantified from the perspective of receivers.

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“…This is a review guided by a systematic review in terms of literature survey and selection ( [31], pp. [98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112], combined with "framing a written discourse about the literature which may be established as a component part of a thesis or other research" [30].…”

Section: Review Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further to DSPs the literature held very little on urban freight and procurement activity. There was a theme of emergent ideas and proposals for mandatory municipal freight consolidation in Swedish cities and the potential power of procurement to change inbound urban freight [5,21,25,37,103,134]. Finally, in 2018, the Transport Catapult had recommended to the UK government that "Government and Local Authorities should ...[adopt]... measures such as retiming deliveries and collaborative procurement" [89].…”

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confidence: 99%

A semi-systematic literature review, identifying research opportunities for more sustainable, receiver-led inbound urban logistics flows to large higher education institutions

Zunder

2021

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Summary This paper reports a semi-systematic literature review, identifying research opportunities for more sustainable, receiver-led, inbound logistics flows to large Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Methods The literature - a body of 229 works - was reviewed using online scholarly databases: the NOVELOG toolkit database; a CASP checklist; followed by re-reading of the refined set of works. A two-stage approach was deployed: first scoping, using a semi-systematic approach, then a narrative review, guided by the systematic review in terms of literature survey and selection. Findings The field was found to be emergent, with 77% of all articles published after 2011. Key concepts were identified and grouped as recurring, or with noticeable gaps - and therefore suitable for further research. The key gaps identified as worthy of note at this stage were: urban freight and procurement activity; private purchasing behaviour; HEIs and freight; barriers to sustainable procurement; engaging with Action Research in purchasing and supply chain management; little or no theory development; and the use of electric vehicles (EVs) in freight.

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Public procurement as driver for more sustainable urban freight transport

Cited by 10 publications

References 2 publications

Green Public Procurement for Accelerating the Transition towards Sustainable Freight Transport

Green Public Procurement for Accelerating the Transition towards Sustainable Freight Transport

Using Procurement Power to Accelerate Sustainable City Logistics: Lessons from Change Agents in The Netherlands

A semi-systematic literature review, identifying research opportunities for more sustainable, receiver-led inbound urban logistics flows to large higher education institutions

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