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Freight Demand Distribution in a Suburban Area: Calibration of an Acquisition Model with Floating Car Data

Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2022
The paper deals with the interaction between freight flows, land use, and economy of a suburban area. In urban freight distribution, the process of freight acquisition of commercial establishments represents a crucial element.
Giuseppe Battaglia, Giuseppe Musolino, Antonino Vitetta   +2 more
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Self‐Transcendence and Self‐Enhancement Values as Drivers of Eco‐Travel Behavior. Implications for Business Strategies for Eco‐Tourism Sector

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ecotourism encourages environmentally friendly travel; however, little is known about the underlying value systems influencing travelers' choices and actions. This study uses a mixed‐method methodology that combines post hoc qualitative analysis with a large‐scale quantitative survey to examine the influence of multiple value dimensions on ...
Yuemeng Ge, Zhi Li, Naman Sreen, Rsha Alghafes, Mai Nguyen   +4 more
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Supply Chain Innovations for Food Waste and Loss: Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food waste and loss (FWL) remains a critical challenge across food supply chains (SCs) globally, with approximately one‐third of all food produced for human consumption discarded or lost each year. This study systematically reviews how supply chain innovation (SCI) can mitigate FWL.
Ilias Vlachos
wiley   +1 more source

Consolidation & coordination in urban freight transport [PDF]

, 2017
Due to growing urbanization, fragmentation of freight flows, and increasingly strict delivery conditions, cities around the world have to deal with a vastly increasing number of freight transport flows. Carriers are unable to efficiently bundle these flows, resulting in inefficient urban transport.
openaire   +1 more source

Biodiversity Strategies in Action—Empirical Evidence From the Food Value Chain

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for better understanding of firm activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation. Panwar, Ober, and Pinkse offer a valuable typology of corporate biodiversity protection strategies based on temporal and spatial dimensions, namely, the preloss (proactive) strategies of conservation and compensation, and the ...
Joanna Scott‐Kennel, Sini Laari, Asta Salmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Simulation-Based Framework for Predicting Lane-Level Pavement Deterioration Under Freight Loading and Stop-and-Go Urban Traffic

Infrastructures
Sustainable and resilient road infrastructure requires the early identification of pavement deterioration mechanisms that emerge under complex urban traffic conditions, particularly at signalized intersections where repeated stop–go operations, queue ...
Nawal Louzi, Mahmoud AlJamal, Mohammad Q. Al-Jamal   +2 more
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African Twist of Circular Economy: Insights, Policies and Recommendations

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the circular economy (CE) has gained traction, this paper argues that mainstream CE approaches risk being misaligned in the African context. Drawing on a mixed‐methods synthesis of empirical studies, policy documents and cross‐country examples, the study shows that Africa's CE transition is fragmented and uneven, leaving the continent at
Michael Odei Erdiaw‐Kwasie, Matthew Abunyewah, Amila Kasun Sampath Udage Kankanamge, Patrick Arhin, Kerstin Zander   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Focus on Railway Shift in Urban Freight Transport: Scenarios and Applications

Future Transportation
This research germinates from the statement that cities need to solve the impacts caused by freight transport to improve their sustainability by implementing a set of city logistic measures.
Antonio Comi, Olesia Hriekova
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Toward Intelligent Carbon Management: A Systems‐Based Framework for Social and Technological Assessment in CCU Applications

Chemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.
A systems‐based framework integrates nine dimensions of CCU assessment with multi‐criteria scoring, weighting, scenario analysis, and dynamic weighting to support context‐sensitive decision‐making. ABSTRACT Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies are increasingly recognized as key instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions while ...
Afshin Poorkhanalikoudehi, Thorsten Wack, Hannah Charlotte Müller, Julia‐Lena Reinermann, Görge Deerberg   +4 more
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A Dynamic Business Modeling Approach to Port Sustainability: The Western Sicily Port Authority Case

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ports are critical nodes in global trade and economic development, yet they generate substantial environmental and social externalities—including greenhouse gas emissions, air, noise, and water pollution, and adverse impacts on host communities—that demand integrated and forward‐looking governance.
Martina Vivoli, Annalisa Tardino, Luca Lupi, Federico Cosenz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source