Decarbonizing road freight in the future - Detailed scenarios of the carbon emissions of Finnish road freight transport in 2030 using a Delphi method approach

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 177-191

  Liimatainen, Heikki ^a   Kallionpää, Erika ^a   Pöllänen, Markus ^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

Carbon footprint; Cluster analysis; Delphi method; Road freight transport; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; DELPHI METHOD; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INNOVATIVE METHOD; QUALITATIVE DATA; ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT; ROAD FREIGHTS; SCENARIOS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; REDUCTION;

ROADS AND STREETS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; ROAD TRANSPORT;

FINLAND;

EID: 84888067849     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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