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Decarbonizing intraregional freight systems with a focus on modal shift
Environmental Research Letters, 2018 Road freight transportation accounts for around 7% of total world energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. With the appropriate incentives, energy savings and emissions reductions can be achieved by shifting freight to rail or water modes, both of which ...
Lynn H Kaack +4 more
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A heavy goods vehicle fleet forecast for South Africa
Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2018 Purpose: To develop and apply a methodology to calculate the heavy goods vehicle fleet required to meet South Africa’s projected road freight transport demand within the context of total surface freight transport demand. Methodology: Total freight flows
Jan H. Havenga +2 more
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Energies, 2022 Road freight transport involves many adversities, along with the growing effect of carbon dioxide transmitted by vehicles on the natural environment, greenhouse gas emissions, or extensive energy use.
Marta Kadłubek +4 more
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Sustainability intervention mechanisms for managing road freight transport externalities: A systematic literature review [PDF]
, 2018 With road freight transport continuing to dominate global freight transport operations, there is increasing pressure on the freight transport industry and its stakeholders to address concerns over its sustainability. This paper adopts a systematic review
Ballantyne, E. +3 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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Regional valuation of infrastructure improvements. The case of Swedish road freight [PDF]
, 2009 Is it possible to identify regional differences among shippers in their valuation of infrastructure improvements? The question is analysed within a random utility approach where parameters are estimated by a logit model. Data consists of a Swedish stated
Abdul Rahman, Mohd Basyaruddin +4 more
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Интеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2022 Road transport is an important branch of the national economy. This is due to many of its advantages compared to other modes of transport, primarily high mobility and the ability to deliver goods “to the doorstep”.
I. I. Lyubimov +2 more
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Strategic Positioning of the Road Freight Transportation Companies: the Case of Croatia [PDF]
Journal of Economic and Social Development (Varaždin), 2019 In today’s environment, for the companies to survive, it is necessary that they establish strong positions. Positioning enables a firm to present its strategy to the target market and gives it the possibility of managing the users of its services ...
NALETINA Dora
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Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023 Destructive market forces are multiplying as the world faces the worst global energy crisis in history. The continuing economic downturn and fluctuating oil prices, triggered by OPEC+’s plan to reduce supply, are slowing down global oil demand.
Robert WALASEK +3 more
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Measuring the quality impacts on the performance in transport company [PDF]
Transport Problems, 2015 The paper deals with the problem of service quality, quantification of the level of quality and evaluation of service quality in freight road transport companies. The impact of the transport service quality on the performance of road freight transport is
Ivana ŠIMKOVÁ +3 more
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