The Importance of Logistics Performance for Mitigating Transportation-Caused Pollution

The relationship between transportation and the environment is complex, with transportation bringing important socioeconomic benefits while also harming the environment. This study investigates empirically how the logistics performance index (LPI) measuring the quality of trade and transport-related infrastructure (QTTI) affects air pollution as measured by total CO₂ emissions in 15 top polluting countries over the 2007–2018 period. Using panel data with fixed effects to examine the relationship between the logistics performance and CO₂ emissions while controlling for economic development (GDP per capita), the authors find that LPI-QTTI is an important mitigating factor for pollution. The authors assure the results’ robustness by producing heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation (HAC) consistent standard errors. The findings, confidently indicating that higher logistics performance decreases CO₂ emissions in the sample of top emitters, have important policy implications and bring relevant new evidence to assist countries in reaching the SDGs f the UN 2030 Agenda.

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  • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23721-8_107
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• Authors:
  • Sova, Robert
  • Tudor, Cristiana
• Conference:
  • 6th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility (CSUM2022)
  • Location: Skiathos Island , Greece
  • Date: 2022-8-31 to 2022-9-2
• Publication Date: 2023

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: 1
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 1330-1339
• Monograph Title: Smart Energy for Smart Transport: Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility, CSUM2022, August 31-September 2, 2022, Skiathos Island, Greece
• Serial:
  • Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Publisher: Springer Cham
  • ISSN: 2523-3440
  • EISSN: 2523-3459
  • Serial URL: https://www.springer.com/series/15991

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Climate change mitigation; Economic development; Exhaust gases; Freight transportation; Heteroscedasticity; Logistics; Pollutants
• Identifier Terms: Logistics Performance Index
• Subject Areas: Environment; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

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• Accession Number: 01940737
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9783031237201
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 23 2024 10:40AM