The greenhouse gas emissions footprint and global warming potential are widely-used for
environmental sustainability studies. However, environmental sustainability is far wider than …

The planning of freight transportation activities creates benefits as well as costs. Among
those costs, some of them, namely externalities, fall on other people/society that have no …

To correctly estimate both energy consumption and CO 2 emissions of hinterland transport,
the currently accepted Activity–modal Structure–energy Intensity–emission Factor (ASIF) …

Intermodal rail/road transportation combines advantages of both modes of transport and is
often seen as an effective approach for reducing the environmental impact of freight …

Multi-modal transportation takes advantage of multiple transport modes and can be an
effective way to ease the negative environmental effects of freight transportation. This paper …

A large portion of life cycle transportation impacts occur during vehicle operation, and key
improvement strategies include increasing powertrain efficiency, vehicle electrification, and …

The economic capacity of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River basin rivals the largest
industrialized economies in the world today. Abundant natural resources, an efficient …

The substitution of long-distance road transportation by railways, so-called the “road-to-rail”
policy, is one of the major national regulatory policies for atmospheric pollution mitigation in …

Subnational incentives to adopt zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) are critical for reducing the
external economic damages posed by transportation to air quality and the climate. Few …

We present an examination of the potential emissions and air quality benefits of shifting
freight from truck to rail in the upper Midwestern United States. Using a novel, freight-specific …