Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains Innovations and Integral App
This book addresses the main challenges affecting modern logistics and supply chains, and is organized according to five main themes: supply chain strategy and management, information and communication technology (ICT) for logistics and related busi
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Meng Lu Joost De Bock Editors
Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains Innovations and Integral Approaches
Contributions to Management Science
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Meng Lu • Joost De Bock Editors
Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains Innovations and Integral Approaches
Editors Meng Lu Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics Breda The Netherlands
Joost De Bock European Commission Brussels Belgium
ISSN 1431-1941 ISSN 2197-716X (electronic) Contributions to Management Science ISBN 978-3-319-17418-1 ISBN 978-3-319-17419-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17419-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015947959 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
Although logistics has undergone huge improvement over the past few decades, there is general agreement that much more can still be done to improve its efficiency. This can be illustrated by a few statistics. 45 % of Europe’s freight moves by road in trucks that, in weight terms, achieve an average load factor of only 43 %. This is partly because they run empty on a quarter of the kilometres they travel, but also because on the laden kilometres they use only 57 % of their available load carrying capacity. The empty running is often blamed on imbalances in traffic flows, but analysis reveals that this only accounts for around half of the empty kilometres. The potential probably exists to increase the average truck load factor in Europe enough to cut road haulage costs by over 20 billion €. If a wider range of improvement measures could trim around 10 % from the total annual EU expenditure on logistics of 930 billion €, savings in the order of 100 billion € could be released. This is a similar figure to the annual cost
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