Eco‐labeling of freight transport services: Design, evaluation, and research directions

Abstract

The idea of eco-labeling is to provide customers with an easy-to-understand signal regarding the ecological impact of using a product or service. With this paper, we propose an eco-labeling system for freight transportation. We discuss design options based on a common emission reporting standard and a related communication protocol. We further explain a procedure for deriving labels for shipments of goods and provide examples illustrating and evaluating the labeling process at selected land-based freight transport services. Results indicate that eco-labels can grade the environmental impact of a transport service reliably, even if heterogeneous goods are moved together.Finally, we outline challenges for future research associated with eco-labeling in freight transportation markets.

Development of intermodal transport by organizing group purchasing of transports

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Demand Management for Sustainable Supply Chain Operations

“…Pricing of green portfolio (Yenipazarli and Vakharia, 2015;Hong et al, 2018;Ovchinnikov et al, 2014) Pricing of renewable energy (Dutta and Mitra, 2017) Carbon footprint product labels (Cohen and Vandenbergh, 2012) Deliver Time-slot management for routing emissions (Manerba et al, 2018) Subscription pricing for routing emissions and food waste (Belavina et al, 2017) Pricing for reduced food waste (den Boer et al, 2022;Sanders, 2022;Yang et al, 2022) Green time-slot labels (Agatz et al, 2021) Green labels for intermodal transport (Heinold et al, 2022)…”

“…In addition to the labeling of products, we also see the advent of labels for logistics services. Kirschstein et al (2022) propose an eco-labeling system that communicates emissions rate categories for different types of freight transportation. Heinold et al (2022) consider the operational planning of an intermodal transport network that lets customers select eco-performance requirements.…”

“…Kirschstein et al (2022) propose an eco-labeling system that communicates emissions rate categories for different types of freight transportation. Heinold et al (2022) consider the operational planning of an intermodal transport network that lets customers select eco-performance requirements. This gives rise to dynamically arriving shipment orders with different eco-labels.…”