Non-technological Innovations for Sustainable Transport, 2014
Four Transport Case Studies
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Examining non-technological innovations for environmentally and socially-friendly transport, this book provides the reader with a better understanding of this often overlooked topic. It features four illustrative case studies, and presents a concise review of the core transport modes (road, rail and marine transport). Transport companies are compelled to innovate due to economic and environmental pressures, and the aim of these innovations is to improve fuel efficiency and ultimately to transform energy use in the transport sector. Whilst many of these innovations are technological, they can conversely be non-technological in nature. This book is intended for students and researchers interested in economics, environmental economics and economics of innovation. It also offers a useful resource to industry professionals interested in ecology and transport.
1 Introduction.- 2 Which policy tools to move towards low carbon mobility?.- 3 Recent innovation in last mile deliveries.- 4 New innovative rail services: stakes and perspectives.- 5 Maritime ports and inland interconnections: a transactional analysis of container barge transport in France.

Corinne Blanquart is a director of research at IFSTTAR (French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks). She is heading the research unit SPLOTT (productive systems, logistics, transport organisation and work). She received a PhD and a professorial thesis (Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches) in economics from Lille University. Her areas of research are freight transport, sustainable logistics and assessment of transport policies. She teaches courses in transport policies, rail transport and analysis of freight demand. She is responsible of the module « actors and institutions » in the Post-Master professional certificate « rail and transport systems ». She is involved in several national and European research projects dealing with topics such as assessment of the role of public-private innovation networks, interconnexion between short and long distance for freight transport, sustainable logistics, logistic performance…

 

Laetitia Dablanc is a Director of Research at the FrenchInstitute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR, University of Paris-Est), and a member of METROFREIGHT, a VREF Center of excellence in urban freight research. Her areas of research are freight transportation, freight and the environment, urban freight and logistics, rail freight, freight transport policies. She is currently working on logistics sprawl issues and freight transport planning in U.S. and European megaregions. She is a member of the steering committee of the World Conference on Transport Research Society and a member of the Urban Freight Committee of the Transportation Research Board (USA). She received a PhD in transportation planning from Ecole des Ponts-ParisTech, and a Master’s degree in city and regional planning from Cornell University. She was initially trained in policy analysis and economics at Science PoParis. She was a visiti

Provides the reader with a better understanding of the often overlooked topic of non-technological innovations in transport Features four illustrative case studies Presents a concise review of non-technological innovations in the core transport modes Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras