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Vehicle telematics data for urban freight environmental impact analysis
, 2021 Road freight transport is one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions. Hence, it is increasingly regulated in urban areas to reduce its impact on the environment and human health.
Shu, Siqi +4 more
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Impact Measuring in Sustainable Ventures: A Process Perspective
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Impact measurement is crucial for sustainable ventures to quantify their contribution to sustainable development. Although research has highly focused on impact measurement as a static activity, we conduct a qualitative study to explore how impact measuring as a process unfolds over time.
Jan Moellmann +2 more
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Shenzhen Daxue xuebao. Ligong banThe utilization of surplus capacity of urban rail transit during off-peak hours for cargo transport is crucial for alleviating urban road congestion, minimizing carbon emissions, and enhancing the efficiency of metro operations.
HOU Wei +4 more
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Future Transportation, 2022 Crowdsourced deliveries or crowdshipping is identified in recent literature as an emerging urban freight transport solution, aiming at reducing delivery costs, congestion, and environmental impacts.
Ioannis Karakikes, Eftihia Nathanail
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Decarbonising Urban Freight Transport: Experimentations in European Research Projects [PDF]
, 2016 One of the objectives of European research programs is to decarbonize freight transport while maintaining its competitiveness and economic strength, reduce negative externalities such as pollutant emissions, congestion and accidents, and foster ...
Ruesch, M. +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Collaborations with nonprofits can enhance firms' legitimacy, yet the relationship between their communication and corporate environmental legitimacy remains poorly understood. Furthermore, research lacks an analysis of the communication of business‐nonprofit collaborations through multiple actors' perspectives.
Andrea Rizzuni +3 more
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A Focus on Railway Shift in Urban Freight Transport: Scenarios and Applications
Future TransportationThis 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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How to make urban freight transport by tram successful?
Journal of Shipping and Trade, 2019 Many national and international bodies, such as the European Commission, encourage the use of environment-friendly transport modes. Local and national authorities take more and more measures, for instance road pricing, loading/unloading spaces and low ...
Katrien De Langhe +4 more
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Road transport and urban logistics
, 2023 This chapter provides an overview of road freight activities in urban areas. Urban road freight transport is essential to the economic prosperity and liveability of towns and cities.
Piecyk, M., Allen, J.
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Circular Economy Pathways for Airport Climate Change Mitigation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Airport operators face growing climate‐change pressures; the circular economy offers pathways to reduce impacts and recover resources. We examine how airport operators apply the circular economy in practice. We use an exploratory qualitative multicase design based on practitioner‐generated documents (e.g., press releases and sustainability ...
Michele Oppioli +3 more
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