Benchmarking Environmental Performance in Freight Transportation

This paper provides an overview of how environmental benchmarking can be applied to freight transportation. It covers freight carriers (truck, rail, air, marine), shippers and freight facilities (marine ports, air ports). It describes the generic benchmarking process and discusses a framework for how environmental benchmarking can be deployed in different freight transportation organizations. The focus of the research is on air emissions, but other environmental impacts are also considered.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT015(7) Paper reviews - planning & logistics
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • O'Rourke, Larry
  • Santalucia, Antonio
  • Ang-Olson, Jeff
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
• Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 19p
• Monograph Title: TRB 91st Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benchmarks; Business practices; Environmental impacts; Freight transportation; Freight transportation support businesses; Metrics (Quantitative assessment); Performance measurement
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Energy; Environment; Freight Transportation; Terminals and Facilities; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01367694
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 12-4641
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 11 2012 11:11AM