Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
( Assessing the Environmental Effects of Logistics)
Environmental Sustainability: A New Priority for Logistics Managers
- A brief history of green logistics research.
- Green logistics: rhetoric and reality.
- Future scenarios.
- A model for green logistics research.
Assessing the External Impacts of Freight Transport
- External impacts.
- Environmental standards.
- Measuring the environmental impact of freight transport.
Carbon Auditing of Companies, Supply Chains and Products
- Guidelines for carbon foot printing.
- The carbon foot printing process.
- Success factors in carbon foot printing.
Case Study
- Arguments for and against the internalization of environmental costs.
- Monetary valuation of environmental costs.
- Internalization of the external costs imposed by road freight vehicles in the UK.
( Strategic Perspective)
Restructuring Road Freight Networks Within Supply Chains
- Traditional network design.
- Green network design.
- Uncertainty in transport and supply chains.
- Uncertainty mitigation approaches in road freight transport networks.
- Gaps in our understanding and priorities for research.
- Consequences and conclusions.
Transferring Freight To ‘Greener’ Transport Modes
- Characteristics of the main freight transport modes.
- Environmental impacts of the main freight transport modes.
Case Study: Container Train Load Factors
- The policy framework.
- Examples of measures aimed at achieving modal shift for environmental benefit.
- Rail and water industries.
Development of Greener Vehicles, Aircraft and Ships
- Road freight.
- Rail freight operations.
- Air freight.
- Shipping.
Reducing the Environmental Impact Of Warehousing
- Scale of the environmental impact.
- Increasing resource intensity.
- Framework for assessing the environmental impact of warehouses.
- Ways of reducing the environmental impact.
(Operational Perspective)
Opportunities for Improving Vehicle Utilization
- Measuring vehicle utilization.
- Factors affecting the utilization of truck capacity.
Optimizing the Routing of Vehicles
- Vehicle routing problems.
- Types of problem.
- Environmental impact.
Increasing Fuel Efficiency in The Road Freight Sector
- Fuel efficiency of new trucks.
- Vehicle design: aerodynamic profiling.
- Reducing the vehicle tare weight.
- Vehicle purchase decision.
- Vehicle maintenance.
- Increasing the fuel efficiency of trucking operations.
- Benchmarking the fuel efficiency of trucks.
- More fuel-efficient driving.
- Fleet management.
Reverse Logistics for The Management of Waste
- Waste management in the context of reverse logistics.
- The impact of waste treatment legislation.
- Reuse, refurbishment markets and take-back schemes.
- Managing waste as part of a sustainable reverse process.
( Key Issues)
The food miles debate: is shorter better?
- Transport and GHGs: is further worse?
- Transport, the second-order impacts and the implications for GHGs.
- Local versus global and the self-sufficiency question.
Sustainability Strategies for City Logistics
- Urban freight research and policy making.
- Efficiency problems in urban freight transport.
- Urban freight transport initiatives.
- Urban consolidation centres.
- Joint working between the public and private sectors.
- Environmental zones.
Benefits and Costs of Switching to Alternative Fuels
- Market developments of alternative fuels.
- Current use of alternative fuels in the freight industry.
- The future.
E-Business, E-Logistics and The Environment
- Business-to-business (B2B).
- Business-to-consumer (B2C).
- Restructuring of the supply chain.
- The future.
- Public policy perspective.
The Role of Government in Promoting Green Logistics
- Objectives of public policy on sustainable logistics.
- Policy measures.
- Reducing freight transport intensity.
- Shifting freight to greener transport modes.
- Improving vehicle utilization.
- Increasing energy efficiency.
- Cutting emissions relative to energy use.
- Government-sponsored advisory and accreditation.
