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Due to economic and social benefits it provides, transport is a key sector on which development is based. However, adverse effects of transport in terms of the environment, economy, and society ought to be minimised. The European Commission has developed standard indicators to evaluate negative effects of transport and its sustainable development in Union countries. This paper presents these indicators and provides their synthetic analysis. The indicators reveal that several countries (e.g. the Netherlands) develo...

The logistics operators is an important link supporting supply chain management, which manages the logistics chain, co-creates logistics networks together with other operators. Logistics operators servicing automotive concerns operate on the basis of a 4PL model (Fourth Party Logistics), i.e. they manage other companies providing transport, warehouse, transshipment, picking and other services. The activities of 4LP operators largely determine whether the supply chains they support can be assessed as "green". The a...

The article emphasizes that the important features of sustainable development in its multifaceted nature. It refers to a number of sciences, including economics (including logistics and transport), social and natural. The idea of sustainable development is integrated at the stage of planning, implementing and controlling infrastructure projects. The basic purpose of infrastructure projects is to balance the fundamental elements of the system that shape the future of the human society on earth: the environment, soc...

The objective of the article was to identify eco-innovations and logistical processes to which eco-innovations are implemented. The article presents the quantitative methods of assessing the impact of logistic processes on the environment, which are also used for eco-design of processes in ecology. In the article the following methods were described: process assessment in supply chain GreenSCOR, LCA, MIPS, OPM. The research objective of the article was to evaluate the impact of the selected logistic process on the...