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The increasing volumes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transport and the negative effects of congestion, noise and accidents lead to the search for new transport alternatives in Europe. These alternatives take into account the negative impacts of transport on environment and society in addition to minimization of the transport costs. If these additional aspects are considered, it is in many cases advantageous to use intermodal transport instead of choosing a direct transport by truck. However, this is still not the case in practice since the road transport is the most preferred transport mode in the EU. The purpose of this paper is to create an evaluation framework including various criteria for comparing different transport alternatives. The criteria combine economic factors including transport costs, inventory costs and time with external effects expressed in costs of GHG emissions, air pollution, accidents, noise and congestion. The framework is used for evaluation of transport alternatives between Vienna and Istanbul including road transport, rail transport, inland waterway transport (IWT) and short sea shipping (SSS).
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Hrusovsky, M. (2015). Evaluation of Green Transport Modes for Containerized Cargo. In: Dethloff, J., Haasis, HD., Kopfer, H., Kotzab, H., Schönberger, J. (eds) Logistics Management. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13177-1_3
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