Sustainable Freight Transport / / edited by Lóri Tavasszy, M. Piecyk.

• TeilnehmendeR: Tavasszy, Lóri,; Piecyk, M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)

This Special Issue of Sustainability reports on recent research aiming to make the freight transport sector more sustainable. The sector faces significant challenges in different domains of sustainability, including the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the management of health and safety impacts. In particular, the intention to decarbonise the sector's activities has led to a strong increase in research efforts--this is also the main focus of the Special Issue. Sustainable freight transport operations represent a significant challenge with multiple technical, operational, and political aspects. The design, testing, and implementation of interventions require multi-disciplinary, multi-country research. Promising interventions are not limited to introducing new transport technologies, but also include changes in framework conditions for transport, in terms of production and logistics processes. Due to the uncertainty of impacts, the number of stakeholders, and the difficulty of optimizing across actors, understanding the impacts of these measures is not a trivial problem. Therefore, research is not only needed on the design and evaluation of individual interventions, but also on the approach of their joint deployment through a concerted public/private programme. This Special Issue addresses both dimensions, in two distinct groups of papers--the programming of interventions and the individual sustainability measures themselves.

Table of Contents

About the Special Issue Editors -- Preface to "Sustainable Freight Transport" -- Sustainable Freight Transport -- Sustainability Intervention Mechanisms for Managing Road Freight Transport Externalities: A Systematic Literature Review -- Safety Assessment Model for Dangerous Goods Transport by Air Carrier -- The Concept of Urban Freight Transport Projects Durability and Its Assessment within the Framework of a Freight Quality Partnership -- Vehicle Weight, Modal Split, and Emissions-An Ex-Post Analysis for Sweden -- The Prism of Elasticity in Rebound Effect Modelling: An Insight from the Freight Transport Sector -- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Intra-National Freight Transport: Measurement and Scenarios for Greater Sustainability in Spain -- Decarbonization Pathways for International Maritime Transport: A Model-Based Policy Impact Assessment -- Energy Efficiency in Logistics: An Interactive Approach to Capacity Utilisation Reprinted from: Sustainability 2018, 10, 1727 -- Possible Impact of Long and Heavy Vehicles in the United Kingdom-A Commodity Level Approach -- Electric Road Systems: Freight Transport? Strategic Stepping Stone on the Way towards Sustainable -- Applying a Mesoscopic Transport Model to Analyse the Effects of Urban Freight Regulatory Measures on Transport Emissions-An Assessment -- Decarbonisation of Urban Freight Transport Using Electric Vehicles and Opportunity Charging Reprinted from: Sustainability 2018, 10, 3258 -- Issues Concerning Declared Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of FAME Biofuels -- Sustainable Timber Transport-Economic Aspects of Aerodynamic Reconfiguration Reprinted from: Sustainability 2018, 10, 1965.