CO2 emissions and technical efficiency of logistics sector: An empirical research from China

Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics Pub Date : 2013-07-28 DOI:10.1109/SOLI.2013.6611388

Lu Fan, Aihu Wang

{"title":"CO2 emissions and technical efficiency of logistics sector: An empirical research from China","authors":"Lu Fan, Aihu Wang","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2013.6611388","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to examine the correlation between CO2 emissions and technical efficiency of logistics sector. In doing so, a one-step Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) approach is employed based on panel data from 25 provincial logistics sector in China. Besides CO2 emissions, rail mileage, highway mileage, inland waterway mileage and the progress degree of provincial marketization in China are also assumed as inefficient factors to technical efficiency. The result of empirical research shows that the coefficients of four assumed inefficient factors pass significant test except the inland waterway mileage. The most important insight is that this research measures the coefficient of CO2 emissions to technical efficiency of logistics sector, i.e. reducing 1% CO2 emissions leads to 0.231% enhancement of technical efficiency of logistics sector. Meantime, facilitating the progress of marketization and expanding mileage of rail and highway system can also improve technical efficiency of logistics sector.","PeriodicalId":147180,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2013.6611388","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the correlation between CO2 emissions and technical efficiency of logistics sector. In doing so, a one-step Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) approach is employed based on panel data from 25 provincial logistics sector in China. Besides CO2 emissions, rail mileage, highway mileage, inland waterway mileage and the progress degree of provincial marketization in China are also assumed as inefficient factors to technical efficiency. The result of empirical research shows that the coefficients of four assumed inefficient factors pass significant test except the inland waterway mileage. The most important insight is that this research measures the coefficient of CO2 emissions to technical efficiency of logistics sector, i.e. reducing 1% CO2 emissions leads to 0.231% enhancement of technical efficiency of logistics sector. Meantime, facilitating the progress of marketization and expanding mileage of rail and highway system can also improve technical efficiency of logistics sector.

查看原文

微信好友朋友圈 QQ好友复制链接

本刊更多论文

物流行业二氧化碳排放与技术效率:来自中国的实证研究

本文的目的是研究二氧化碳排放与物流部门技术效率之间的相关性。在此过程中，基于中国25个省级物流部门的面板数据，采用了一步随机前沿分析(SFA)方法。除二氧化碳排放外，铁路里程、公路里程、内河航道里程和中国省级市场化程度也被认为是影响技术效率的低效因素。实证研究结果表明，除内河航道里程外，4个假设无效因素的系数均通过显著检验。最重要的洞察是，本研究测量了二氧化碳排放对物流部门技术效率的系数，即减少1%的二氧化碳排放导致物流部门技术效率提高0.231%。同时，促进市场化进程，扩大铁路和公路系统里程，也可以提高物流业的技术效率。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文去求助

来源期刊

Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics

自引率

0.00%

发文量