Environmental Performance of Land and Marine Transportation in Inland Shipping - Impact of ship speed

摘要

It was found that the marine transport is more environmental friendly than land transport in inland cargo shipping. Fet also showed the superiority of marine transport in trans border cargo transportation. In all of these cases, the researchers considered moderate operating speeds for ships. But other researches showed that fast ship was not competitive in this respect. This paper is to discuss about a methodology to find the critical speed of a ship up to which the marine transport will be favorable for sustainable development to the environment.