emission control

 To support creation of a new market of low-carbon services, environmental data collection and sharing should be widespread within and across the involved companies (carriers, logistics services providers and shippers). Currently there are ICT tools and platforms available to companies for collecting, processing and publishing data on logistic processes. Read more about Exchange platforms for environmental data

Introduction 

The offering of low-carbon freight transport services, in the current industrial state-of-the-art, includes three main kinds of solutions: Read more about Low-Carbon Freight Transport Services

Mainly three different types of transport motivate the urban logistics, namely the intra-urban transport (i.e. local transport), inter-urban transport (i.e. the transport being part of longer transport chains) and return/waste transport. Common for all three, is:

  Read more about Zero Emissions Urban Logistics by Hans Westerheim

Logistics efficiency is one of the main challenges that need to be addressed in the upcoming years in Europe. Especially in transport logistics operation, a closer look reveals that today we have to deal with a high degree of inefficiencies in this area.

  Read more about Increased logistics efficiency - the state of the art by Jens Schumacher

A widespread opinion among experts and policy makers is that when (mind: when!) we exit from the current crisis, it will be with a fundamentally changed economic model. Sustainability and C02 reduction will be growth factors, i.e., key elements in almost any company’s value proposition, rather than being simple cost factors and policy constraints.
The transport logistics sector is, in this respect, a perfect candidate for change: few industries have such huge margins for CO2 reduction, and these translating into economic savings (at least in theory). Read more about Low-CO2 logistics services: new market or business as usual?