Air Power and Freight - The View from the European Union and China

This book addresses the challenges of planning sustainable freight transport systems (road and air) in a time when the industry faces increasing pressure from environmental limits, climate change, carbon emission targets, bottlenecks in oil supply, infrastructure shortages and urban congestion.  The author examines sustainable freight transport over the last 45 years on three continents, and includes developments on transport economics, logistics and transport geography as well as environmental economics.  Readers will gain valuable insight on a number of practices and methodologies that will assist in making their systems more sustainable with fewer negative environmental effects at both the local and global level.

List of contents

Introduction.- Road freight transport & energy use: U.S., China, the EU, Japan and Germany.- Europe`s Sustainable road freight transport to 2050: Closing the gap between reality and vision.- The Strategic Role of Air freight, trade and the airport: evidence from Europe.- Air freight transport in China, trade and the airport network.- Conclusions.

About the author

Dr. David Bonilla is a research professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and a visiting senior researcher at the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford.

Summary

Examines driving forces in the air freight sectors of various countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas
Discusses growth factors in the worldwide road and air freight sector
Identifies industry wide challenges and examines long-term policy changes and their effect

Product details

• Authors: David Bonilla
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030277826
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3027782-6
• No. of pages: 149
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 10 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 270 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 149 p. 32 illus., 11 illus. in color.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Energy; SpringerBriefs in Energy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; C, ENERGY, Transportation, Electrical Engineering, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Renewable and Green Energy, Renewable energy resources, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Transportation engineering, Traffic engineering