Open AccessInnovative Scheme for Efficient Freight Movement and Sustainable Emissions Management
Author(s) -
Afroditi Anagnostopoulou,
Evangelia Papargyri,
Maria Boilé
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
transport and telecommunication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.263
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1407-6179
pISSN - 1407-6160
DOI - 10.2478/ttj-2019-0020
Subject(s) - greenhouse gas , environmental economics , business , order (exchange) , sustainable transport , transport engineering , scheme (mathematics) , traffic management , efficient energy use , energy consumption , emissions trading , sustainability , engineering , economics , finance , ecology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , electrical engineering , biology
This paper presents and analyses an innovative integrated scheme that aims to rationalize and improve the efficiency of urban freight transport as well as to promote reduced GHG emissions and traffic flows. Emissions management has become critical concern for modern companies and public authorities seeking to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption from private and commercial heavy vehicle fleets, in line with the political targets of COP21 to COP23. The proposed scheme aims to utilize the current technological advances for efficient transport and logistics operations that regional authorities and companies can use and afford in order to provide competitive traffic management decisions as well as improvements in terms of pollutant emissions reduction. Both public and private stakeholders could interact to monitor and evaluate the impact of traffic policies and measures over time as well as the level of success of their routing strategies. Computational results on different scenarios of an experimental simulation model illustrate the competitiveness of the proposed scheme in an effort to quantify its effect.