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Diogo da Fonseca-Soares, Sayonara Andrade Eliziário, Josicleda Domiciano Galvincio and Angel Fermin Ramos-Ridao
Rail transportation plays a crucial role in reducing carbon emissions from the transportation system, making a significant contribution to environmental impact mitigation due to the efficiency of passenger and freight rail transportation. Accurate assess...
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Clara Borén, Manel Grifoll and Marcella Castells-Sanabra
Maritime transportation is the prevalent mode of transport for overseas freight, and it is frequently recognised as a relatively environmentally sustainable means of transport. However, shipping is still a substantial source of greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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Hongzan Jiao, Faxing Yang, Shasha Xu and Shibiao Huang
Urban logistics is important to a city?s sustainable growth and development. With the increase in population and the economic growth in urban areas, the issue of congestion and the negative influence of transport of goods on people and the environment is...
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Sheng-Long Kao, Wu-Hsun Chung and Chao-Wei Chen
Maritime transport is a major mode of transportation. Over 80% of international freight is carried by this mode. A port is a hub of ships and freight in maritime transport. Because of growing environmental concerns, how to effectively monitor, control, a...
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Mónica M. Ramalho and Tiago A. Santos
This paper discusses the most attractive emission compliance options (emission abatement technologies and cleaner fuels) in intermodal transport chains that include short sea shipping. Most studies on emissions-based transport chain comparisons have esti...
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Salvatore Trubia, Alessandro Severino, Salvatore Curto, Fabio Arena and Giovanni Pau
The goal of civil engineering has always been the research and implementation of methods, technologies, and infrastructures to improve the community?s quality of life. One of the branches of civil engineering that has the strongest effect on progress is ...
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Adrian Stone, Bruno Merven, Tiisetso Maseela, Resmun Moonsamy
AbstractIt is key for national economic planning to build the tools to forecast energy demand from major sectors like transport in a credible way. As a starting point, this requires building a sufficiently detailed ?bottom-up? picture of technologies and...
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Fadiel Ahjum, Bruno Merven, Adrian Stone, Tara Caetano
The South African transport sector is estimated to emit 60 MtCO2eq and require 800 PJ of energy, similar in scale to industrial energy demand and emissions. The sector is forecast to potentially eclipse industry in this regard if conventional vehicle cho...
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Jose Prata, Elisabete Arsenio
Pág. 900 - 915
This paper extends the previous R&D project on the evaluation of intermodal freight transport scenarios (seamless multimodal logistic chains) centered in the Port of Sines in Portugal where a set of alternative investment options were compared: (i) marit...
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Eftihia Nathanail, Giannis Adamos, Michael Gogas
Pág. 1036 - 1045
City logistics is a key catalyst in the urban economy but, in parallel, urban road freight transport significantly affects the quality of life in the urban environment. Optimization of urban freight transport (UFT) can make an important contribution to t...
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