Information and communication technologies, road freight transport, and environmental sustainability [PDF]
Environmental Economics, 2020 Despite progress in reducing air pollutants in several countries, freight transport continues to have undesirable effects on environmental quality, human health, and the economy.
Walid Chatti
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A Logistics Barometer for South Africa: Towards sustainable freight mobility
Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2016 Background: South Africa has a disproportionately high freight transport demand owing to industrial development far from ports, low domestic beneficiation and improper modal use. Historical freight transport policy supported primary economic development,
Jan H. Havenga +4 more
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TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE US RAILWAYS AGAINST THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE ECONOMY IN THE YEARS 2000-2017 [PDF]
Scientific Journal of Silesian University of Technology. Series Transport, 2019 The overall contribution of the railway sector in the American economy is substantial. Since 2000, the volume of rail freight transport services in the United States has remained on a balanced and invariably high level, even though the total length of ...
Leszek MINDUR, Maciej MINDUR
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Understanding urban freight activity – key issues for freight planning
, 2012 Using information gathered from some 30 UK surveys undertaken over the last decade, this paper provides planners with an understanding of road-based urban retail freight transport activity. The findings suggest that the average High Street business could
Tom Cherrett +24 more
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Evaluation of urban freight transport operations in Surakarta city
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 In an effort to monitor and control the urban freight transport, the Municipal Government of Surakarta City issue a dispensation license for freight vehicles through the inner-city road. Nevertheless, the facts indicate that traffic violations by freight
Budi Yulianto
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A Spatial Economic Study of Rail Freight in the European Economic Area
Promet (Zagreb), 2022 The present study explores whether the European Union’s transport policy measures of the last decade have fulfilled the expectations, i.e. whether there has been a positive change in the field of rail freight transport in the region.
Adrienn Boldizsár, Ferenc Mészáros
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Transport Sector GHG Mitigation Measures: Abatement Costs Application Review
Future TransportationThe transport sector is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, making its decarbonization critical for climate change mitigation efforts.
Lorena Mirela Ricci +2 more
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Multimodal schedule design for synchromodal freight transport systems
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2016 Intermodal freight transport has been discussed for decades as an alternative to unimodal road transport. However, it still does not represent a significant portion of the total freight market.
Behzad Behdani +3 more
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DETERMINATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF INFRASTRUCTURAL AND ECONOMICFACTORS ON THE VOLUME OF FREIGHT TRANSPORTON RAILWAY LINES IN POLAND [PDF]
Transport Problems, 2020 This article assesses the effectof factors, such as the number of sidings, the number of stationholds,and theoccurrence of transit traffic on the volume of freight transport on railwaylines inPoland. The volume of freight transport on a
Wojciech KAMIŃSKI
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Kvalitet usluga u železničkom saobraćaju država EZ, EFTA i SFRJ
Promet (Zagreb), 2012 This paper deals with the quality of transport services in passenger and freight rail transport of the EC, EFTA and Yugoslavia. For passenger transport services the respective level has been reviewed on the system of IC-lines while for the freight ...
Milan Janić, Dmitar Grubor
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