Sustainable Road Freight: Technology Management and Its Impact on Logistics Efficiency

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-1-78966-021-0
Verlag: KOGAN PAGE

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The Centre for Sustainable Road Freight is a collaborative venture between industry, Cambridge University, Heriot Watt University and organizations in the freight and logistics sectors. Sustainable Road Freight summarizes the first five years of their vital research, taking a cross-disciplinary approach to reducing the carbon imprint in logistics. It is an important reference guide for students, researchers and practitioners.

The research presented in Sustainable Road Freight proves that the best way to achieve deep reductions in CO2 emissions from the road freight sector is to combine highly-focused vehicle engineering with improvements to freight distribution systems. Key freight operators have set the agenda and spearheaded the adoption of the results by the road freight industry. These include John Lewis, Tesco, DHL, Wincanton along with vehicle industry partners including Volvo, Goodyear, Firestone and others. With an emphasis on technology management and how this will change logistics, this is an essential text with online supporting resources including input frameworks, case study vignettes and PowerPoints for lecturers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greening, Phil

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Fahrzeugtechnik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Transport- und Verkehrswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter - 01: Setting the agenda; Chapter - 02: Aerodynamics; Chapter - 03: Light weighting; Chapter - 04: Alternative fuels; Chapter - 05: Rolling resistance; Chapter - 06: Energy recovery and storage; Chapter - 07: Driver feedback and connected vehicles; Chapter - 08: Demand reduction; Chapter - 09: Transport ecosystems; Chapter - 10: The Internet of things, connected vehicles, and the role of data; Chapter - 11: Human factors - The role of the driver; Chapter - 12: A roadmap for radical change

Über Autor(innen)

Greening, Phil
Dr Phil Greening is an Associate Professor at Heriot Watt University and a Director of the Centre of Sustainable Road Freight a collaborative venture between Industry, Heriot Watt University and Cambridge University. His research interests include complexity, risk in supply chains, road freight, green logistics, and computer modelling of complex systems. Prior to becoming an Academic Dr Greening was a senior Supply Chain Consultant.

Dr Phil Greening is an Associate Professor at Heriot Watt University and a Director of the Centre of Sustainable Road Freight, a collaborative venture between industry, Heriot Watt University and Cambridge University.