Project Details
Projekt
Emission oriented management of land-based freight transportation
Subject Area
Accounting and Finance
Term
from 2015 to 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 268276815
The evaluation of freight transportation processes mostly relies on cost and time. By this the environmental impact of freight transportation is externalized which is increasingly judged critical by public and thus raises new challenges for research. Recent studies, for instance, indicate that emission-based planning models for road transportation show only little environmental impact if compared with cost-based planning models, because both lead to very similar solutions. In contrast, multimodal freight transportation systems offer considerable emission saving potentials, provided that electrified and highly utilized rail transport processes with short road-drayage operations are executed. Thus, taking the viewpoint of climate protection, a multimodal transportation process shows advantages, which will increasingly compensate structural disadvantages in the future. In this project, we are going to develop and test transportation management instruments that can take into account the individual preferences of shippers when planning transportation processes in multi-model rail-/road networks. The idea is to have shippers express their preferences via an eco-labeling scheme for transportation services similar to corresponding schemes established in other markets (e. g. cars, electronic devices, real estate). We do this by striving for a realistic modelling of eco-oriented transportation planning processes where shippers can state their desired eco-efficiency classes that are then respected by freight forwarders and other parties when planning and executing the transportation process. As a result, we expect a steering of the transportation industry towards more eco-friendliness. To this end, we aim at three goals in this project: (1.) Designing an effective eco-labeling scheme that can cover multiple sectors of the transportation market, (2.) combining the planning methods developed individually for road and rail transportation in the preceding research project in order to come up with a versatile multi-modal planning instrument (e.g. for tendering and order acceptance decisions under an available-to-promise capability), and (3.) a thorough experimental analysis of the steering potential of an eco-labeling scheme in various market contexts and in stochastic-dynamic planning environments.
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