Emission-Oriented Management of Land-Based Freight Transports

Dear Colleagues,

Typically, freight transports are evaluated based on transport costs and travel time. The environmental impact, however, is mostly externalized raising more and more critique in public and society. In recent years a whole bunch of approaches for emission reduction in freight transportation have been proposed and studied. For instance, introducing zero-emission vehicles like electric or gas vehicles, drones, or droids offers new opportunities for emission reduction particularly in city logistics. Another more established concept is multimodal transportation offering potentials for emission reduction if e.g. transport processes with (electrified) highly utilized trains and short drayage are organized.

However, many organizational and managerial issues remain unsolved for most emission-oriented transportation concepts triggering promising research directions. Some crucial questions to be answered are for example:

1. Which ecological, economical and service effects can be realized by particular emission-oriented transport concepts?
2. How can customers communicate preferences regarding ecological transport performance?
3. How are heterogeneous customer preferences handled and compensated in joint transport processes?

The purpose of this special issue is to collect research articles dedicated to concepts for emission-oriented transportation planning and management. A special (but not exclusive) focus is put on the following topics:

• Emission-oriented freight transportation planning
• emission-oriented collaboration & coordination of transport services
• (Multimodal) vehicle routing considering emission objectives or constraints
• Modelling customer preferences in transportation planning
• Allocation of emissions and cost in collaborative transport processes
• Evaluation of emission-reduction technologies for land-based freight transport systems

Dr. Thomas Kirschstein
Guest Editor

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• greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of road and rail transports
• transport mode selection
• emission allocation
• emission preferences
• multimodal transportation
• emission modelling & estimation
• emission-minimal path selection
• emission-oriented vehicle routing