Abstract Despite the growing interest in green logistics over the last years, the cost savings perspective in collaborative transportation prevails. As environmental concerns increase, it is worthwhile to address collaboration from a green perspective. This chapter highlights the effectiveness of collaborative transportation to achieve environmental goals in road freight transportation. First, it overviews several cases that quantify the environmental benefits of collaborative transportation. The benefits range from 11% to 54% reduction of CO2 emissions, and also include potential improvements in biomass logistics for increasing the use of bioenergy. Second, it studies the problem of how to allocate emissions to different objects involved in joint transport activities. These objects can be, for example, companies in a coalition or customers on a route. By a numerical example on a vehicle routing problem and an overview of other applications, it is illustrated how methods used to allocate cost can also be used to allocate emissions. The chapter also includes a brief overview of the methods to calculate emissions and the optimization criteria used in the literature on collaborative transportation and emission allocation. Overall, this chapter contributes with a first compilation of the emergent stream of literature that incorporates environmental concerns in collaborative road freight transportation.
Environmental Benefits of Collaboration and Allocation of Emissions in Road Freight Transportation
2018-01-01
20 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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