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Montanuniversität Leoben Chair of Industrial Logistics
WHERE RESEARCH BECOMES FUTURE
Where are we in decarbonizing industrial logistics?
Preliminary results from a survey among practitioners
Philipp Miklautsch
Manuel Woschank
Chair of Industrial Logistics
The research has received funding from the Office of the
Styrian Provincial Government, grant agreement No.
ABT08-247910/2021.

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Montanuniversität Leoben Chair of Industrial Logistics IPCC (2014), OECD/ITF (2015), Ritchie & Roser (2020), WBCSD & WRI 2
• Scope 1
“direct GHG emissions occur from sources that
are owned or controlled by the company”
• Scope 2
“accounts for GHG emissions from the generation of
purchased electricity consumed by the company”
• Scope 3
“a consequence of the activities of the company, but
occur from sources not owned or controlled by the
company”
− Major component: Up- and Downstream Transportation
and Distribution
− About 30% of transport emissions are accounted to
freight transport
Scope 1
Producer
Scope 2
Consumer
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Scope 3
Consumer
Electricity
and Heat Production
25 %
Industry
21 %
Transport
14 %
Industry
11 %
Freight
4.2 %
GHG Emissions from Industrial Logistics

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Montanuniversität Leoben Chair of Industrial Logistics
The Need to Survey
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investigates enablers and barriers
• External pressure through stakeholders
• Future business models
• Costs and awareness
investigates the implementation of measures
• In Swedish LSPs and freight owners, 2016
• In operations management of Brazilian
companies, 2020
Pålsson & Johansson (2016), Lopes de Sousa Jabbour et al. (2020)
Sarkis et al (2011), White et al (2014), Quintás et al (2018), Anderhofstadt &
Spinler (2019), Seisini et al (2020), Miklautsch & Woschank (2022)
Research exists, that … Contribution of this research
• Describe
− status quo of measures‘ implementation in
Austrian companies
− practitioners‘ perception of measures savings
potential and barriers in Austria
− anchoring of GL among Austrian shippers
• Investigate influence of
− industry sector (𝐻0)
− company size (𝐻1)
− anchoring of GL in companies (𝐻2)
− perceived potentials (𝐻3)
− perceived barriers (𝐻4)
on measures‘ implementation
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Montanuniversität Leoben Chair of Industrial Logistics
Survey Structure
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General questions (10)
Respondent
• Position
• Experience
Anchoring of Green Logistics
• Emission reporting (yes/no/part.)
• Goals for logisitcs (yes/no)
• Operational anchoring (yes/no)
• Budget for measures (yes/no)
Organization
• Sector (NACE)
• Size (Employees & Revenue)
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Questions related to greening
measures (3 × 11)
11 measures to
• Avoid (5)
• Shift (2)
• Improve (4)
Questions about perceived
• Emission savings potential (very low – very high)
• Implementation barriers (very low – very high)
• Level of implementation (not pursued - established)
𝑛 = 27 responses 𝑛 = 19 responses

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Respondents
Preliminary Survey Results (I)
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General questions
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Position
Experience
Management Planning Other
1-2 yrs 2-5 yrs >5 yrs
Organizations
Goals Reporting
Orga.
Anchoring
Budget
Yes 5 6 9 3
No 22 18 18 24
Partially 3
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Anchoring of Green Logistics
𝑛 = 27
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Employees
Revenue
<10 50-249 250-999 >1000
<2 m€ 2-10 m€ 11-50 m€ >50 m€

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Preliminary Survey Results (II)
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Questions related to greening measures Interactive Plot
https://www.miklautsch.eu/umfrage?lang=en
Measures with highest potentials
• Vehicles with alternative powerdrives
• Fleet renewal
Measures with highest barriers
• Shift to rail
• Vehicles with alternative powerdrives
Measures with highest implementaion
• Fleet renewal
• Energy-saving driving stlye
Overall level of implementation
1 2 3 4 5
ҧ
𝑖 = 2,76

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Montanuniversität Leoben Chair of Industrial Logistics
Preliminary Survey Results (𝐻2)
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Scale 1: Anchoring 𝑎
• Goals 𝑎1
• Reporting 𝑎2
• Orga. Anchoring 𝑎3
• Budget 𝑎4
ത
𝑎 = 2,26
𝐶𝐵𝐴 = 0,885
Scale 2: Implementation 𝑖
• Implementation of measure 1 𝑖1
• Implementation of measure 2 𝑖2
• …
• Implementation of measure 11 𝑖11
ҧ
𝑖 = 2,76
𝐶𝐵𝐴 = 0,889
ത
𝑎 ҧ
𝑖
ത
𝑎 Pearson Correlation 1 ,610**
Sig. (2-tailed) ,006
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
𝐻2: There is a significant relationship
between the anchoring of GL in the
organization and the level of implementation
of GL measures.

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Montanuniversität Leoben Chair of Industrial Logistics
Preliminary Survey Results
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Hyp. Difference/relationship Pearson Correlation ANOVA
𝐻0
significant difference in the level of implementation
between different industry sectors (NACE sector level)
No significant difference
(𝑠𝑖𝑔 = 0,380)
𝐻0′
significant difference in the level of implementation
between different industry sectors (NACE group level)
No significant difference
(𝑠𝑖𝑔 = 0,501)
𝐻1
significant relationship between company size and level
of implementation
No significant relationship
(𝑠𝑖𝑔 = 0,208)
𝐻1′
significant difference in the level of implementation
between companies with different sizes
No significant difference
(𝑠𝑖𝑔 = 0,457)
𝐻2
significant relationship between anchoring and level of
implementation
Significant relationship
(𝑠𝑖𝑔 = 0,006)
𝐻3
significant relationship between perceived potential of a
measure and its implementation
Significant relationship for 2/11
measures
𝐻4
significant relationship between perceived barrier of a
measure and its implementation
Significant relationship for 1/11
measures
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Montanuniversität Leoben Chair of Industrial Logistics
Conclusion
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• test whether the perceived GHG saving potentials match scientifically validated potentials
• develop strategies to lower (perceived) barriers of high-potential measures
• include other countries to compare effectiveness of policies and/or infrastructure
Further research is needed to
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Current implementation of measures and anchoring of GL is quite low in
Austria
Internal/external factors driving anchoring (e.g., reporting) will foster GL
implementation (𝐻2)
Raising awareness and disseminating case studies/pilots can accelerate
implementation of alternatively powered vehicles (𝐻3 and 𝐻4)
Industry sector and company size have not been found to influence
measures’ implementation significantly (𝐻0 and 𝐻1)
• Low number of responses
• Compare shippers to carriers

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Q & A
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The authors
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Chair of Industrial Logistics
Department Economic and Business
Management,
Montanuniversität Leoben
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Helmut Zsifkovits
logistik@unileoben.ac.at
+43 3842 402 2021
DI Philipp Miklautsch
University Assistant &
PhD candidate
philipp.miklautsch@unileoben.ac.at
/in/philipp-miklautsch/
0000-0001-7004-1236
PD Dr. Manuel Woschank
Deputy head & senior
researcher
manuel.woschank@unileoben.ac.at
/in/manuel-woschank-a510ab38/
0000-0003-1496-3388