The vehicle approach for freight road transport energy and environmental analysis in Spain

Abstract

Purpose and methodology This paper summarizes the results of a permanent road freight sample survey carried out in 1997-2003 on heavy duty vehicles in Spain. In particular, this work reviews some of the key indicators that are measuring the efficiency and the operational performance of the freight road transport. The indicators of transport are coming directly and indirectly from the survey. The survey is based on a stratified random sampling, and represents an audit of the performance of 41,600 vehicles in a yearly basis.Main results Although the study shows wide variation in absolute values between 1997 and 2003, energy and environment efficiencies improve by 0.2%. Conclusions Nevertheless, assumptions and analyses of freight road transport in Spain find significant new points of view to the problems in order to assess vehicle utilization, fuel efficiency and CO2 emissions.

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

“…Scenario assessment of energy efficiency in road freight transport [85][86][87][88][89][90]. 13 Implementation of energy efficiency actions to improve road freight transport [91][92][93][94][95][96][97].…”

“…Considering the first sub-topic area, the work of Pérez-Martínez (2009) [86] explored some energy efficiency indicators in the Spanish road freight transport. The research highlighted a low-level reduction of emissions intensity per kilometer (0.2%) and an increasing in the fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions (9.8%).…”

“…Furthermore, the benefits of technological and managerial innovations often influence the productive efficiency of a company without any visible effect on CO 2 emissions reduction. For instance, just-in-time deliveries are usually in contrast with green measures, such as load optimization [86,87]. Although this sub-topic area addressed the environmental issues by analyzing several measures and the related effects in different contexts of analysis, what it is lacking is a rational explanation of the reasons underlying the inadequacy of such measures and suggestions for alternative measures to improve the energy efficiency in the sector.…”

“…On the one hand, the government influence should be reflected in promoting energy efficiency or discouraging pollutant actions [86,88,90] and, on the other hand, in improving transport infrastructures [89]. However, this aspect is quite neglected in this topic area.…”

Energy Consumption and Emissions From the Road Transport in Spain: A Conceptual Approach

“…The growth of the Spanish economy, especially during the period 1995-2007, and associated growth of personal incomes, has generated increasing need for transportation (both passengers and freight). This economical growth has induced the increase in the ownership of private cars and the performance of transport services operating and relaying predominantly on diesel vehicles (Pérez-Martínez 2009). The diesel cars have become the most popular mode of private transport in Spain in detriment of the gasoline cars, due to lower operation costs (lower fuel prices and fuel consumption of diesel).…”