Towards more environmentally sustainable intercontinental freight transport

Freight Transport, Logistics and Sustainable Development

A Roadmap for Sustainable Freight Transport

It is expected that freight transport in the European Union will grow significantly and road transport will account for a major part of this growth. By 2020 almost 30% of CO2 emissions in the European Union will be caused by transportation. It is obvious that our present patterns of transport growth are unsustainable. One way toward more sustainable transport is to explicitly take greenhouse ga...

Freight transport development forecasts in enterprises management

In this study, an investigation of long-term forecasts relating to the development of the transport sector in Poland is performed, including the ones by 2030 and 2050. Selected transport development forecasts from the perspective of the membership of Poland in the European Union are presented and most of all, from the perspective of national studies. The basement for the review was the prognosi...

Intercontinental NO2 transport

Intercontinental transport of nitrogen oxide pollution plumes M. Wenig, N. Spichtinger, A. Stohl, G. Held, S. Beirle, T. Wagner, B. Jähne, and U. Platt Institut für Umweltphysik (IUP), Heidelberg University, Germany Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Heidelberg, Germany Lehrstuhl für Bioklimatologie und Immissionsforschung, TUM, Freising, Germany Instituto Pesquisas Mete...

Towards an ICT Platform for the European Freight Transport Community

The paper identifies requirements for an Information and Communication (ICT) platform for the European freight transport sectoran e-Freight Platform. The e-Freight Platform can be used to support integrated multimodal transport and improved interoperability between freight transport and administration systems. The authors illustrate the potential of such platform for enhanced Business to Admini...