Sustainable Freight Transport

- Logistics and Freight Transport as the Kernel of Resilient Airport-Driven Development; a Survey on Basic Interactivities and Causalities. - Sustainability management in smaller UK ports to promote more sustainable freight transport. - A bi-objective problem of scheduling fuel supply vessels. - Value Creation Through Green Vehicle Routing. - Environmental benefits of collaboration and allocation of emissions in road freight transportation. - Short supply chains as a viable alternative for the distribution of food in urban areas? Investigation of the performance of several distribution schemes. - Sustainable solutions for urban freight transport and logistics: an analysis of Urban Consolidation Centers. - Urban Vehicle Access Regulations. - The Importance of Supplier Development for Sustainability.

Dr. Vasileios Zeimpekis is lecturing at the Department of Financial and Management Engineering at the University of the Aegean and is the Deputy Director of the DeOPSyS research lab. He has also been appointed as the Vice President of Operations in the Hellenic Logistics Association. His research interests focus on Supply Chain Management with emphasis on Sustainable Transport and Information Systems. He has published five edited volumes in the management of supply chains and more than 70 papers and studies in academic journals and conferences. During the last decade, he has participated in 30 research projects and more than 70 industrial projects. Vasileios acts also as an instructor in executive seminars and workshops in public organizations and private firms. He has been appointed as a transport expert by the United Nations, as well as the Greek Supply Chain Council, a governmental advisory body. He is also a reviewer at the Hellenic General Secretariat of Research & Development, as well as at the European Union (DG MOVE). Dr. Zeimpekis is member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Economic Chamber of Greece, and the European Technical Chamber (FEANI).



Dr. Emel Aktas is a Senior Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Cranfield School of Management. She specializes in mathematical modelling and decision analysis with applications in the transport, retail, and manufacturing sectors. Her recent research focuses on food supply chain management, with one project (SAFE-Q) on minimizing waste in the food supply chains and another (U-TURN) on logistics collaboration practices for distribution of food in the cities. Her work has appeared in European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, and Computers and Human Behavior.

Dr. Michael Bourlakis is a Professor in Logistics & Supply Chain Management and the Head of the Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain