Online shopping habits and the potential for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from passenger transport

Rosqvist, Lena Smidfelt; Hiselius, Lena Winslott

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.054

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“…Theoretical studies examining the impacts on residential location and urban development [27,47] indicate that telework may also contribute to increased urban decentralization, and even generate more transport. Since then, the research on the interactions between transport and telecommunication technologies has become an established domain by itself, and a good overview of it can be seen at Liu et al [26], Shen et al [44], Shi et al [45], Smidfelt Rosqvist & Winslott Hiselius [46], Suel & Polak [48].…”

Section: Telecommuting and Online Shopping As Digital Alternatives Fomentioning

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The trade-off behaviours between virtual and physical activities during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic period

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Andruetto

Susilo

et al. 2021

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Introduction The first wave of COVID-19 pandemic period has drastically changed people’s lives all over the world. To cope with the disruption, digital solutions have become more popular. However, the ability to adopt digitalised alternatives is different across socio-economic and socio-demographic groups. Objective This study investigates how individuals have changed their activity-travel patterns and internet usage during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemicperiod, and which of these changes may be kept. Methods An empirical data collection was deployed through online forms. 781 responses from different countries (Italy, Sweden, India and others) have beencollected, and a series of multivariate analyses was carried out. Two linear regression models are presented, related to the change of travel activities andinternet usage, before and during the pandemic period. Furthermore, a binary regression model is used to examine the likelihood of the respondents to adoptand keep their behaviours beyond the pandemic period. Results The results show that the possibility to change the behaviour matter. External restrictions and personal characteristics are the driving factors of the reductionin ones' daily trips. However, the estimation results do not show a strong correlation between the countries' restriction policy and the respondents' likelihoodto adopt the new and online-based behaviours for any of the activities after the restriction period. Conclusion The acceptance and long-term adoption of the online alternatives for activities are correlated with the respondents' personality and socio-demographicgroup, highlighting the importance of promoting alternatives as a part of longer-term behavioural and lifestyle changes.

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Section: Telecommuting and Online Shopping As Digital Alternatives Fomentioning

confidence: 99%

The trade-off behaviours between virtual and physical activities during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic period

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Andruetto

Susilo

et al. 2021

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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“…The effect of digitalization and intelligent asset implementation is adopted as an additional tool to create a more complete CBM visualization tool. Table 10 summarizes some of the main instruments and methods, typical of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which can be exploited to achieve an effective CE [139][140][141][142]. The insertion of the effect of intelligent assets in a CBM visualization tool addresses feature C3, since the suggested technologies can boost circular initiatives [47,[143][144][145].…”

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Overcoming the Main Barriers of Circular Economy Implementation through a New Visualization Tool for Circular Business Models

2019

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There is a huge gap between the broad concept of circular economy (CE) and its practical implementation in the industrial sector due to several types of barriers, which shall be led back to the lack of consistent and precise information about resources, products, and processes. Without a proper information flow, it is impossible to quantify circular initiatives, both in comparison with the actual linear situation or with circular alternative opportunities. A proper quantification of circular initiatives allows the assessment of economic, environmental and social benefits and the preventative identification of potential barriers and relative solutions, monitoring the risk associated with circular investments and supporting the decision-making process. This paper describes a new tool to ensure the quantification of circular initiatives and the method to define it. It is a new Circular Business Model (CBM) visualization tool, which overcomes the main limitations of the existing models able to explain CE concepts but not to boost its practical implementation in industry. The new CBM visualization tool can be adopted in every industrial sector to highlight circular opportunities that are still hidden or unexploited or to select the best CE strategy. The proposed CBM visualization tool differs from the previous diagrams in two main characteristics: (i) the possibility to quantify resource flows and important indicators representing energy consumption, environmental and social impact, and (ii) the focus, which is not only on the product, but on the whole system, involving also the process, the company and the entire supply chain. The methodology to adopt and adapt the proposed model to different scales is described in detail. To provide a practical example, the model was qualitatively applied to a generic technical product to highlight its potential in the identification and quantification of circular activities.

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“…A number of studies have assumed that application of the new information technology (IT) can significantly reduce energy use [45,46]. For vehicular travel, IT can potentially help in two ways.…”

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Energy Efficiency or Conservation for Mitigating Climate Change?

Moriarty

Honnery

2019

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Given that global energy use today is still dominated by fossil fuels, there is an urgent need to rapidly reduce its use in order to avert serious climate change. However, the alternatives to fossil fuels—renewable and nuclear energy—are more expensive, and have so far done little to displace fossil fuels. Accordingly, reducing energy use must play an important part in both averting climate change and avoiding the depletion of high energy return easily recoverable fossil fuel reserves. This paper examined both the potential and barriers to the adoption of energy reduction measures, with particular attention to domestic energy and passenger transport. The main finding was that energy efficiency approaches alone are unlikely to deliver anywhere near the energy reductions needed in the limited time available. Instead, most energy reductions will have to come from energy conservation, involving less use of energy-using devices, including private vehicles. Achieving such reductions will require changes in lifestyles, especially for residents of OECD nations.

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Online shopping habits and the potential for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from passenger transport

Cited by 65 publications

References 19 publications

The trade-off behaviours between virtual and physical activities during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic period

The trade-off behaviours between virtual and physical activities during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic period

Overcoming the Main Barriers of Circular Economy Implementation through a New Visualization Tool for Circular Business Models

Energy Efficiency or Conservation for Mitigating Climate Change?

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