Modelling and analysis of sustainable freight transportation

A Review of Big Data in Road Freight Transport Modeling–Gaps and Potentials

“…The road freight transport (RFT) sector faces challenges in reducing costs and incorporating sustainability measures into operations (Kumar et al 2019). The demand for freight has increased drastically and causes severe traffic congestion, carbon emissions, and reduced air quality (Chankaew et al 2018).…”

“…Road transport alone accounts for 20% of global total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Santos 2017); 30% of this comes from RFT (Ge and Friedrich 2020). Inefficiency (e.g., between 40 and 60% empty trips), redundant trips, lack of synchronization between transport modes, and the ability to deal with disruption and risks (Kumar et al 2019) are challenges that the road freight sector faces. In addition, new societal challenges toward energy transition, such as electric vehicle operations and charging infrastructure allocation, require new data, modeling types, and analytics (Wang and Sarkis, 2021).…”

Supervised machine learning algorithms for measuring and promoting sustainable transportation and green logistics

“…SFT aims to balance the economic, social and environmental dimensions of the sector in an integrated way to ensure synergy, complementarity and coherence (Zeimpekis et al, 2018;Kumar et al, 2019). From all regulations on the environmental, social and economic impacts left by RFT activities arises the need for businesses and governments to have methodologies to measure that impact.…”

“…From all regulations on the environmental, social and economic impacts left by RFT activities arises the need for businesses and governments to have methodologies to measure that impact. There is an exhaustive list of what SFT entails (Kumar et al, 2019). Among the characteristics, we can highlight the ability to provide safe, socially inclusive, accessible, reliable, affordable, fuel-efficient, environmentally friendly, low-carbon transport that is resistant to shocks and disruptions, including those caused by climate change and natural disasters (Youssef et al, 2017).…”

Designing a sustainable freight transportation network with cross-docks

“…Globalisation and rapid economic growth have created an increasing demand for the logistics sector leading to a surge in the carbon emission levels (Shankar et al, 2019, Kumar andAnbanandam, 2020;Yazdani et al, 2020). The freight transportation has been imposing several negative externalities on the environment such as air pollution, traffic congestion, noise pollution and accidents (Demir et al, 2019;Yazdani et al, 2020).…”