
Sustainable Freight Transport
MDPI (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-3-03897-435-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Basel
Switzerland
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professionals/Scholars
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 24.4 cm
Width: 17 cm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
603 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-03897-435-2 (9783038974352)
DOI
10.3390/books978-3-03897-436-9
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Guest editor
Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Transport & Planning Department
Netherlands
University of Westminster
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
Department of Planning and Transport
United Kingdom