INNOVATIONS IN SUSTAINABLE LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION

Abstract

With the growing concern of human activities impacting the environment around the globe, sustainability became a slogan common for every business affair. Innovations happening at every passing second slightly changed its mode to include sustainability in its creation. Today, innovations to ensure sustainability is implemented in different sectors of development and profit-making organisations. The calling factors for such innovations in the logistics and transportation sectors with the innovations are systematically studied in this article, utilising the literature review of articles and reports on different logistics organisations. According to studies the pollution expelled out of the vehicles and machinery running in the warehouse of the logistic firms are CO2, nitrous oxide, methane and hydrofluorocarbon in extreme cases. These harmful greenhouse gases emitted from the transport sector alone account for 21% of the overall emissions, which is comprised of vehicles by road, rail, and airways. Innovations in the form of vehicles running on electricity and hydrogen fuel, which is encouraged in the form of recharge stations at appropriate locations and subsistence production of renewable energy, adoption of location tracking techniques like GPS and ITS tools, use of biodegradable plastics are some of them. Several companies have so far adopted these methods to maintain sustainability in their production and transportation. The countries and the customers within are demanding such an innovation in any service offered to them. Hence, the logistics and transportation sectors are impelled to act accordingly which in the long run is the right way to gain profit.