Consideration for the long-term effects of transportation activities should
strongly influence policy decisions.
Within the last 15 years growing concern over
environmental impacts has spawned the concept of Green Logistics as a stimulus for
developing methods which can reduce the environmental impacts of freight
transportation. As a result researchers and industry have begun assessing mitigation
options for planning freight transportation with consideration for environmental
externalities.
This concern extends beyond freight operations to other complex systems on which urban areas rely. |
