strategies to reduce transport emissions

There are a number of logistics strategies that could be employed, particularly with freight, to reduce transport's carbon footprint. Researchers working on Gift - the geographic intermodal freight transport model - are collecting data to allow delivery planning that can identify the tradeoffs between routes that minimize carbon footprint or particulate emissions or time costs. For example, with enough data, routes could be planned to minimize the number of left turns (when driving on the right-hand side of the road). As a multimodal model, this approach could be used globally to decide not only routing, but also which modes of transport would provide the best tradeoffs.