Energy efficiency practices among road freight hauliers

Energy Policy

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 833-842

  Liimatainen, Heikki ^a   Stenholm, Pekka ^b   Tapio, Petri ^b   McKinnon, Alan ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c KÜHNE LOGISTICS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Online survey; Road freight transport

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS; EUROPEAN UNION; FINLAND; HAULIERS; LOGISTICS FIRM; ONLINE SURVEYS; POLICY GOALS; POLICY MAKERS; ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT; ROAD TRANSPORTS; SURVEY DATA; WHITE PAPERS;

FLEET OPERATIONS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; PUBLIC POLICY; ROADS AND STREETS; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; GREENHOUSE GAS; ROAD TRANSPORT;

FINLAND;

EID: 84866887754     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.08.049     Document Type: Article

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