A Roadmap for Sustainable Freight Transport
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by Asvin Goel In: Heyde, F. and Löhne, A. and Tammer, C. (Eds.): Methods of Multicriteria Decision Theory and Applications. p. 47 - 56, Shaker, 2009. ISBN: 978-3-8322-8180-9 Full text: PDF |
Abstract
The transport industry accounts for 30% of CO2 emissions in the European Union. By far, the largest share of these emissions results from road transport which accounts for 44% of freight transport of intra-EU transport. For the period between 2000 and 2020 freight transport in the European Union is expected to grow by 50% and road transport will account for a major part of this growth. These figures show that our present patterns of transport growth are unsustainable. One way toward more sustainable transport is to explicitly take greenhouse gas emissions into account in logistics decisions and to get freight traffic to switch from roads to alternative transport modes. This contribution presents a roadmap toward more sustainable freight transport focussing on Logistics Service Provider (LSP) managing a fleet of road vehicles. In order to fulfil transportation requests the LSP may either use the fleet of road vehicles, intermodal freight services, or any combination of the two. This contribution will give an overview over the state-of-the-art in related research and will show gaps and limitations toward more sustainable freight transport. It will describe a framework for seamlessly integrating intermodal transport into the planning methods of the LSP and will point out areas in which further research must be conducted.
