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Decarbonizing Logistics
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Decarbonizing Logistics

by Prof. Alan McKinnon
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
10h 7m
English
Kogan Page
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04

Shifting freight to lower-carbon transport modes

Transport modes1 vary enormously in the amount of CO2 they emit per unit of freight movement. An express air freight service can be 500 times more carbon-intensive than bulk delivery by electric train. An obvious decarbonization strategy is therefore to send as much freight as possible by those modes with the lowest carbon intensity. To use the jargon, this involves altering the ‘freight modal split’. This option features prominently in the decarbonization frameworks outlined in Chapter 1 and in the policy statements of national governments. It was by far the most frequently mentioned means of cutting freight-related emissions in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) made ...

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