Green Transportation Logistics The Quest for Win-Win Solutions
This book examines the state of the art in green transportation logistics from the perspective of balancing environmental performance in the transportation supply chain while also satisfying traditional economic performance criteria. Part of the boo
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Harilaos N. Psaraftis Editor
Green Transportation Logistics The Quest for Win-Win Solutions
International Series in Operations Research & Management Science Volume 226
Series Editor Camille C. Price Stephen F. Austin State University, TX, USA Associate Series Editor Joe Zhu Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA Founding Series Editor Frederick S. Hillier Stanford University, CA, USA
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Harilaos N. Psaraftis Editor
Green Transportation Logistics The Quest for Win-Win Solutions
Editor Harilaos N. Psaraftis Department of Transport Technical University of Denmark Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
ISSN 0884-8289 ISSN 2214-7934 (electronic) International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ISBN 978-3-319-17174-6 ISBN 978-3-319-17175-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17175-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015942145 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword and Acknowledgments
This book is a compilation of material on green transportation logistics. The material comes from various sources, mostly from projects that my associates and I have been involved in, but also from work of several external invited colleagues. An outline of the scope and contents of the book is presented in the Preface. The trigger for writing the book came from EU project SuperGreen on green corridors (2010–2013), and, in fact, several chapters of this book are based on the results of this project. Sometime before the end of this project, and when I was still at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), it occurred to me that material developed in the course of the project might form the basis for a book. However, the decision to go on with the book, as well
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