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Green Logistics as the Basis for Improving Environmental Efficiency of Transport

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Efficiency in Sustainable Supply Chain

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The chapter is devoted to the issues of sustainable development of the transport sector and the definition of eco-efficiency in transport. To achieve this, the author proposed a Matrix of Transport sustainable development and the Classification of environment-unfriendly factors, affecting the eco-efficiency on transport. The author proposes the system Greens, based on promotion of the modes of transport implementing green technologies and fining those modes of transport that do not pay enough attention to environmental issues. The term ‘GreenS’ combines two economic categories: fine (green Strafe) and reward-benefit (green Start). The chapter concludes that the approach estimating modes of transport in terms of their integration into the supply chain is not just reasonable, but also effective, since the use of ‘green’ logistics principles is not just an option, but mandatory path of development, both for individual modes of transport and for the entire transport industry.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to acknowledge the Russian and foreign partners in the international project TEMPUS ‘RECOAUD’ and personally Professor Edeltraud Günter. Interesting and fruitful work in the project provided the author with positive motivation for writing this chapter.

The author would also like to express the words of gratitude to Adam Kolinski—the author of this monograph for inviting to co-authors and to Elena Ershova—the translator of this chapter.

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  1. Ural State University of Railway Transport, Kolmogorova str., 66, Yekaterinburg, Russia

    Marina A. Zhuravskaya

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  1. Faculty of Management Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland

    Paulina Golinska-Dawson

  2. Poznan School of Logistics, Poznan, Poland

    Adam Kolinski

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Zhuravskaya, M.A. (2017). Green Logistics as the Basis for Improving Environmental Efficiency of Transport. In: Golinska-Dawson, P., Kolinski, A. (eds) Efficiency in Sustainable Supply Chain. EcoProduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46451-0_7

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