Freight logistics’ contribution to sustainability: Systemic measurement facilitates behavioural change

The freight logistics discipline can make an important contribution to the sustainability debate through the application of its expertise in systemic measurement and trade-off management to the macrologistics realm. The systemic measurement of a country’s freight system allows for the development of decision-making scenarios to, inter alia, inform sustainable transport policy, thereby supporting broader national sustainability goals. The purpose of this research is to test the hypothesis that internalisation of externality costs will encourage efficient supply chain behaviour, which will result in a shift to rail of rail-friendly traffic currently on road. Counterintuitively, the results indicate that increased returns to rail density due to such a modal shift could result in a lower total freight bill (inclusive of externality costs). It also underscores the importance of national freight flow and related cost measurement to enable such analysis.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2016.08.035
• Record URL:
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136192091630534X
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Havenga, Jan H
  • Simpson, Zane P
• Publication Date: 2018-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 320-331
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
  • Volume: 58
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1361-9209
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13619209

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Externalities; Freight transportation; Highway transportation; Logistics; Modal shift; Railroad transportation; Sustainable development; Sustainable transportation; Transportation policy
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost internalization
• Subject Areas: Environment; Freight Transportation; Highways; Policy; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01660061
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 14 2018 10:49AM