Research Project

LogMan: Logistics and Manufacturing CO₂ Footprint

Factors like global competition, labour cost, recycling technologies and environmental restrictions force companies to implement new logistics and manufacturing systems. From a transport's point-of-view most of these new systems (e.g. offshoring) have negative impacts as they induce additional freight transport. But on the other hand they are implemented as they have positive effects like cheaper production processes (e.g. due to economies of scale) or even environmental benefits (e.g. due to recycling).

The objective of this study is

• to give an insight into new logistics and manufacturing trends;
• their impacts on economic and environmental sustainability;
• to provide scenario based recommendations for European freight transport policy considering both economic and environmental sustainability; and
• to improve existing tools (TRANSTOOLS, I-O tables) used for impact assessment and cost benefit analysis.

Further Information

For more information and output from this research project, please see the LOGMAN website or contact Dr David Bonilla.