Environmental Performance of Transportation - A Comparative Study

Information about the environmental performance of transport systems is believed to become increasingly important in the future. Waterborne transport has traditionally been considered the best alternative from an environmental point of view. However, in recent years more attention has been put on the way environmental performance is documented. This paper shows how the environmental performance of different transport chains can be compared against each other by a set of environmental impact categories. By the use of different weighting models, slight variations in performance are observed.