ICT in Green Freight Logistics

Geiger, Christiane

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17175-3_6

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“…According to a study of the local food producers integrated logistics network in Sweden, Nordmark et al [104] noticed that route optimization could reduce the route distances, decreasing the environmental impact, while they also pointed out that the lowest estimated potentials for global warming, acidification, eutrophication and human toxicity were found when integrated collections and deliveries took place during each route. Geiger [105] also maintains that communication information technology plays a vital role in promoting environmentally sustainable cargo transportation throughout Europe. It is well known that in any case, freight transportation accounts for the largest share of logistics emissions [18].…”

Section: Effects Of Glm On Green Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Implications of Green Logistics Management on Sustainable Business and Supply Chain Performance: Evidence from a Survey in the Greek Agri-Food Sector

2020

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Green agri-food supply chains are increasingly attracting research interest, owing to their potential capacity for resilience against recent crises (e.g., financial, COVID-19) as well as end-consumers’ concerns on sustainability issues. In this context, this paper aims to explore the relationship between green supply chain management practices and three different performance aspects, namely, supply chain, green (environmental) and business performance, and controlling for environmental dynamism. Field research was conducted through a structured questionnaire contacted to 134 executives of firms in the agri-food sector in Greece. The results reveal that information sharing, logistics networking and transportation are the most powerful factors that impact sustainable, business and supply chain performance. In addition, green packaging is related to financial and social performance aspects. Interestingly, green warehousing and logistics emissions failed to establish any relationship with performance outcomes. The conclusions and recommendations drawn in the present study are expected to provide meaningful guidance for the supply chain decision-making process, as logistics managers are becoming increasingly aware of exploiting all available resources, knowhow and competitive advantages for attaining sustainable performance.

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Implications of Green Logistics Management on Sustainable Business and Supply Chain Performance: Evidence from a Survey in the Greek Agri-Food Sector

2020

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“…Lai and Wong [21] confirmed that green logistics management had a significant positive effect on improving environmental quality and manufacturer's business performance, while regulatory pressures promoted green logistics management and contributed to environmental profitability. Geiger [22] believed that communication technology played a role in promoting environmentally sustainable cargo transportation throughout Europe. By measuring the CO 2 emissions of container ships and their influencing factors in the past decade, Cariou Pierrea [23] found that the overall reduction in annual CO 2 emissions was mainly due to the general decline in speed and technological changes, but these positive effects were offset by an increase in total fleet capacity.…”

Section: Green Logistics and Logistics Performancementioning

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Green Transportation and Logistics Performance: An Improved Composite Index

Xie

Chen

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Sustainability

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This article constructs an environmental logistics performance index (ELPI) for assessing the overall performance in green transportation and logistics practices of 112 countries. The index is measured by logistics performance index (LPI), CO2 emissions and oil consumption from the transport sector, using a range-adjusted measure (RAM) of the data envelopment analysis (DEA). ELPI effectively reflects the tradeoff between logistics efficiency and environmental protection in transportation. This article analyzes the impact of income and region on ELPI scores and discusses those countries’ reduction potential in oil consumption intensity and carbon intensity. The main finding of the research work is that ELPI is strongly correlated with LPI, and countries with high performance in LPI generally perform well in ELPI. Similar to the characteristics of LPI, ELPI is also closely related to income and region. During our study period, high income countries performed best, while Sub-Saharan Africa countries performed worst. However, some exceptions such as Venezuela, RB and Benin, indicate that the level of development of logistics performance and green transportation can outperform or lag behind their income or region group peers.

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“…Even though the green VRP is covered (Bektaş et al ), no green DVRP is examined. In a chapter of that book, Geiger discusses the role of ICT in green freight logistics, including the concept of dynamic speed limits depending on carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, but again no routing considerations are included. In short, we are aware of no DVRPs where vehicle speed is a decision variable or the objective function includes environmental terms.…”

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Dynamic vehicle routing problems: Three decades and counting

2015

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Since the late 70s, much research activity has taken place on the class of dynamic vehicle routing problems (DVRP), with the time period after year 2000 witnessing a real explosion in related papers. Our paper sheds more light into work in this area over more than 3 decades by developing a taxonomy of DVRP papers according to 11 criteria. These are (1) type of problem, (2) logistical context, (3) transportation mode, (4) objective function, (5) fleet size, (6) time constraints, (7) vehicle capacity constraints, (8) the ability to reject customers, (9) the nature of the dynamic element, (10) the nature of the stochasticity (if any), and (11) the solution method. We comment on technological vis-à-vis methodological advances for this class of problems and suggest directions for further research. The latter include alternative objective functions, vehicle speed as decision variable, more explicit linkages of methodology to technological advances and analysis of worst case or average case performance of heuristics.

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ICT in Green Freight Logistics

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Implications of Green Logistics Management on Sustainable Business and Supply Chain Performance: Evidence from a Survey in the Greek Agri-Food Sector

Implications of Green Logistics Management on Sustainable Business and Supply Chain Performance: Evidence from a Survey in the Greek Agri-Food Sector

Green Transportation and Logistics Performance: An Improved Composite Index

Dynamic vehicle routing problems: Three decades and counting

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