<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper presents and analyses an innovative integrated scheme that aims to rationalize and improve the efficiency of urban freight transport as well as to promote reduced GHG emissions and traffic flows. Emissions management has become critical concern for modern companies and public authorities seeking to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption from private and commercial heavy vehicle fleets, in line with the political targets of COP21 to COP23. The proposed scheme aims to utilize the current technological advances for efficient transport and logistics operations that regional authorities and companies can use and afford in order to provide competitive traffic management decisions as well as improvements in terms of pollutant emissions reduction. Both public and private stakeholders could interact to monitor and evaluate the impact of traffic policies and measures over time as well as the level of success of their routing strategies. Computational results on different scenarios of an experimental simulation model illustrate the competitiveness of the proposed scheme in an effort to quantify its effect.</p></abstract>

This paper presents and analyses an innovative integrated scheme that aims to rationalize and improve the efficiency of urban freight transport as well as to promote reduced GHG emissions and traffic flows. Emissions management has become critical concern for modern companies and public authorities seeking to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption from private and commercial heavy vehicle fleets, in line with the political targets of COP21 to COP23. The proposed scheme aims to utilize the current technological advances for efficient transport and logistics operations that regional authorities and companies can use and afford in order to provide competitive traffic management decisions as well as improvements in terms of pollutant emissions reduction. Both public and private stakeholders could interact to monitor and evaluate the impact of traffic policies and measures over time as well as the level of success of their routing strategies. Computational results on different scenarios of an experimental simulation model illustrate the competitiveness of the proposed scheme in an effort to quantify its effect.

Innovative Scheme for Efficient Freight Movement and Sustainable Emissions Management

Hellenic Institute of Transport / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

Transport and Telecommunication Journal

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This paper presents and analyses an innovative integrated scheme that aims to rationalize and improve the efficiency of urban freight transport as well as to...

Innovative Scheme for Efficient Freight Movement and Sustainable Emissions Management

Online veröffentlicht: 26. Juni 2019

Seitenbereich: 242 - 250

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ttj-2019-0020

Schlüsselwörter
GHG emissions, transport environmental management, logistics

© 2019 Transport and Telecommunication Institute, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Innovative Scheme for Efficient Freight Movement and Sustainable Emissions Management

Online veröffentlicht: 26. Juni 2019

Seitenbereich: 242 - 250

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ttj-2019-0020

SchlüsselwörterGHG emissions, transport environmental management, logistics

© 2019 Transport and Telecommunication Institute, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
GHG emissions, transport environmental management, logistics