Review of Road Hauliers' Measures for Increasing Transport Efficiency and Sustainability in Urban Freight Distribution

Arvidsson, Niklas; Woxenius, Johan; Lammgård, Catrin

doi:10.1080/01441647.2013.763866

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“…The authors found that hybrid vehicles and the eco-driving bonus scheme are less efficient than other green actions, such as limiting driving speed or regular monitoring of tire inflation. Finally, Arvidsson et al (2013) [95] analyzed a wide set of measures for energy efficiency improvement in the Swedish road freight transport sector. The study highlighted that the energy efficiency of each measure also depends on some external factors, such as the market competition conditions, the relationship network and policy/regulation factors.…”

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“…13 Implementation of energy efficiency actions to improve road freight transport [91][92][93][94][95][96][97].…”

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“…However, this aspect is quite neglected in this topic area. Only one article deals with the haulers' adoption of green actions spurred by government [95]. The environmental policies of national government or international institutions have evolved in the last few decades, and several policy instruments have been deployed to reduce the GHG emissions from the road freight transport industry (IEA, 2009) [8].…”

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Environmental Sustainability in Third-Party Logistics Service Providers: A Systematic Literature Review from 2000–2016

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Despite the increasing interest toward environmental issues in the freight transport and logistics service sector, a comprehensive and updated assessment of the existing literature is still missing. This paper aims to fill this gap by presenting the results of a systematic literature review of publications in the area of environmental sustainability in third-party logistics service providers (3PLs) between the years 2000 and 2016. The review offers insight into the critical dimensions of green matters in transport and logistics service companies using an analytical framework based on the following five topic areas: influencing factors, green actions and the impact on performance, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools supporting the green actions, energy efficiency in road freight transport and shipper's perspective and collaboration. The results indicate that, despite the number of published papers having grown significantly from 2008 onward, some areas remain highly under-researched such as ICT and performance measurement. Several research gaps have been identified in each topic area, and a set of propositions forming an agenda for future research directions has been suggested.

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“…13 Implementation of energy efficiency actions to improve road freight transport [91][92][93][94][95][96][97].…”

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“…The demands on the industry can create pressures that promote inefficient or wasteful practices such as empty/ below-capacity vehicles (e.g. McKinnon & Ge, 2006), and inefficient driving behaviours (Zanni & Bristow, 2010), such as idling (Arvidsson et al 2013), all of which were noted by our research participants. Norms within the industry have evolved through timepressured and time-sensitive customer expectations, thus rethinking the demand and supply of freight services to fit within the needs of a low-carbon society might result in decreasing delivery speeds.…”

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Change trends in urban freight delivery: A qualitative inquiry

Hopkins

McCarthy

2016

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In this paper we present the findings of a qualitative investigation of change trends in urban freight deliveries. The empirical material was gathered with urban freight (courier) company managers and drivers in Aotearoa New Zealand. It presents personal accounts of the everyday lived experiences of those intimately involved in the delivery of goods within the urban environment. Twenty five interviews were conducted across four urban centres between June and September 2015. We use the four elements of the Energy Cultures Framework to explore what urban freight managers and drivers 'have', 'do' and 'think', and the pressures of an external context. Four interrelated themes are presented, 1. Online shopping and home deliveries, 2. Tracking and transparency, 3. New technologies, and 4. Meeting (changing) expectations, with evidence provided by way of verbatim quotations. The 'mobility cultures' concept is used to explore the relationships between the four themes, and to identify the key change trends that may affect the ability of the freight industry to contribute to a low-carbon transport transition. We conclude by signalling some policy implications and future research directions.

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“…The freight transport sector contributes a significant proportion of total surface transport emissions (McKinnon, 2007), and must therefore incentivise radical changes to achieve substantial improvements in its environmental performance. Various authors investigate measures to reduce supply chain carbon intensity, which reflects a genuine and world-wide motivation within the sector to reduce negative environmental impacts (e.g., Guerrero et al, 2013;Guerrero, 2014;Liimatainen et al, 2012;Li et al, 2013;Piecyk and McKinnon, 2010;Arvidsson et al, 2013;Larson et al, 2013).…”

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Towards a common measure of greenhouse gas related logistics activity using data envelopment analysis

Holden

Greening

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Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Monitoring company emissions from freight transport is essential if future greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions are to be realised. Modern economies are characterised increasingly by lower density freight movements. However, weight-based measures of freight transport activity (tonne-kilometre, tonnes lifted) are not good at describing volume-limited freight.After introducing the need for performance measurement, the problem of benchmarking is outlined in more detail. A context-dependent undesirable output data envelopment analysis (DEA) model, designed to be sensitive to business context, is then tested on a simulated set of fleet profiles. DEA can produce more consistent measures of good-practice, compared to ratio-based key performance indicators (KPI), providing emission reduction targets for companies and an aggregate reporting tool.

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Review of Road Hauliers' Measures for Increasing Transport Efficiency and Sustainability in Urban Freight Distribution

Cited by 54 publications

References 32 publications

Environmental Sustainability in Third-Party Logistics Service Providers: A Systematic Literature Review from 2000–2016

Environmental Sustainability in Third-Party Logistics Service Providers: A Systematic Literature Review from 2000–2016

Change trends in urban freight delivery: A qualitative inquiry

Towards a common measure of greenhouse gas related logistics activity using data envelopment analysis

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