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NEW REPORT: Environmental Impact of Road Freight Transport in 2020
EU project on sustainable urban freight policy: SUGAR
NEW REPORT: The effects of congestion on vehicle routing and scheduling
NEW ARTICLE: Shopping trip or home delivery: which has the smaller carbon footprint?
NTM Workshop on calculation methods of GHG emissions in freight
REPORT: Measurement of CO2 Emissions from Road Freight Transport. A Review of UK Experience
Green Logistics Showcase 2009 on 2 June in Birmingham
REPORT - Data management and data collection
REPORT - Carbon Auditing the Last Mile
Supply Chain, Energy and CO2: Research Day in Paris
Are trucks taking their toll? New report by CE Delft
SmartWay International Summit - Transforming the Global Supply Chain
The Committee on Climate Change - Building a low-carbon economy
REPORT - Survey Forms Used in Urban Freight Studies
Internalising the External Costs of Light Goods Vehicle Transport in Britain
Consumer Shopping Trip: Online Survey 2008- results available
OECD Global Forum 10-12 Nov. 08: Transport and Environment
Using official data sources to analyse the light goods vehicle fleet and operations in Britain
REPORT - Review of UK Urban Freight Studies
REPORT - Review of survey techniques used in urban freight studies
Reliability of Road Transport from the Perspective of Logistics Manager and Freight Operators
Logistics Research Network Annual Conference 2008, 10-12 September 2008
DfT 'Towards a Sustainable Transport System' (TaSTs) Reports / Case Studies
Report on Longer and Heavier Vehicles
International Transport Forum on Transport and Climate Change
'Green Logistics Day', Multi-modal 2008 Conference, 23 April 2008, NEC Birmingham
Reverse logistics report
Railway Efficiency - An Investigation of Container Train Service Provision and Load Factors in Great Britain
Internalising the External Costs of Road Freight Transport
DfT report - Framework to deliver new Low Carbon Transport System
CO2 Emissions from Transport In the UK - report
 

NEW ARTICLE: Shopping trip or home delivery: which has the smaller carbon footprint?

  
It has been a hotly debated subject - but at last the verdict is in. Rather than finding that online shopping is detrimental to the environment, when considering the last mile stage only, successful home delivery compares favourably with conventional shopping. Professor Alan McKinnon and Dr Julia Edwards reveal their findings.

The CITL FOCUS article can be downloaded here



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