The Noble Quest: Navigating Toward Sustainable Transportation

IF 1.1 4区 工程技术 Q4 MANAGEMENT
David Swanson, Y. Jin
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Abstract:Societies around the world consistently enjoy better living standards as product choices, availability, quality, and cost are continuously improved. As lifestyles improve and the world population grows, so does the amount of transportation necessary to support this lifestyle. Despite our noble quest to adopt more sustainable transportation, and despite countless innovations and improvements, the results are inadequate; carbon reduction is insufficient to curtail our growth trajectory, much less achieve the aggressive zero emission targets set by companies and governments. To examine this problem, we revisit transportation as a derived demand, a principle which has been accepted for decades, but largely forgotten in sustainable transportation research. In fact, transportation has evolved so much that some scholars are debating the significance of this age-old assumption. This suggests that transportation researchers take a fresh look at the nature, changes, and evolving trends of transportation demand and possibly focus less on sustainable transport and more on adjusting the demand for sustainable transportation.
崇高的追求:走向可持续交通
摘要:随着产品选择、可用性、质量和成本的不断提高,世界各地的社会一直享有更好的生活水平。随着生活方式的改善和世界人口的增长,支持这种生活方式所需的交通量也在增加。尽管我们崇高地追求采用更可持续的交通方式,尽管进行了无数创新和改进,但结果并不充分;碳减排不足以遏制我们的增长轨迹,更不用说实现企业和政府制定的积极的零排放目标了。为了研究这个问题,我们将交通作为一种衍生需求重新审视,这一原则几十年来一直被接受,但在可持续交通研究中基本上被遗忘了。事实上,交通已经发生了很大的变化,以至于一些学者正在争论这个古老假设的意义。这表明,交通研究人员要重新审视交通需求的性质、变化和演变趋势,可能不太关注可持续交通,而更多地关注调整可持续交通的需求。
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2.40
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4.30%
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期刊介绍: Transportation Journal is devoted to the publication of articles that present new knowledge relating to all sectors of the supply chain/logistics/transportation field. These sectors include supply chain/logistics management strategies and techniques; carrier (transport firm) and contract logistics firm (3PL and 4PL) management strategies and techniques; transport economics; regulation, promotion, and other dimensions of public policy toward transport and logistics; and education.
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