Abstract
The increase of transport intensity in the transportation of goods due to globalization goes along with the rise of transportation costs as well as environmental pollution. In order to work against these developments, improvements in European transport policy on the one hand and optimization of transport logistics at company level on the other hand are needed.
There can be followed transport avoiding strategies, transport shifting strategies towards alternative carriers or professional logistics providers, who can carry out transportation processes more efficient, or real transport optimization strategies, which aim at an increase of capacity utilization of truck fleets. Practice shows that transport by road is the dominant mode of transport in Austrian SMEs and that they are strongly oriented toward intra-company fleets although these are neither cost nor environmentally optimal in performance. Industry-sector specific optimization potentials exist concerning quality, time and costs in transport logistics.
| Translated title of the contribution | Economical and ecological aspects of the optimization of operations concerning the transportation of goods demonstrated by the example of the Upper Austrian building material and the secondary raw material trade branch |
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| Original language | German (Austria) |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2009 |
Fields of science
- 502052 Business administration
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