Environmental and economic evaluation of transport processes
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Decision making in transportation processes is one of the major drivers of the environmental performance of companies. Transport processes cause environmental impacts mainly by their energy consumption and their air emissions. To consider environmental impacts in management decisions, a model (tool) for the evaluation of transportation alternatives had to be developed.
The model should contain the following steps: Firstly, system boundaries for the transportation task have to be defined. Then a suitable functional unit has to be determined. After defining the transport process alternatives, ecological and economic consequences have to be recognised and evaluated. Finally, both evaluations will come together to support decision making regarding transportation. Consequently, tasks like selection and planning of transportation relations, employment of means of transportation, planning of locations, and, finally, the performing of operative business can be fulfilled in an environmentally sound manner.
Leadership
Researchers
Dipl.-Ing. Vera Greschner Farkavcová
Term
10/2003 - 06/2011
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