Green Logistics, Urban Air Quality Management And Biofuels Use By Dr. S. K. Modak

Introduction16.20              73.20         
Logistics constitute a vital link in the present day162.24          255.31
transportation systems. They have improved the cost,Chennai             
efficiency and reliability aspects of our delivery2.34              2.02     
systems comprising the end part of supply chain.       28.21             
However, the negative environmental impact of50.46            143.22        226.25
transport movements leading to high fuel consumptionHyderabad         
emissions, enhanced noise levels, movement vibrations1.94              1.56           
and accident rates have now reached such high16.84             
proportions that the sustainability issues have inevitably56.33             126.17        202.84
come to the forefront of discussions all the world over.Jaipur                 
Logistics, including the reverse distribution logistics, have1.18              1.25           
to be made environment friendly. In this context,15.29             
‘Green Logistics' assumes great significance.20.99                51.28        
Present day transportation owes much to modern88.99
technology which has indeed helped develop a high1. Kanpur              
degree of organization and control over freight1.06              1.08            
movements not only within a country but also across13.37             
the seven seas. Technology could be called the most22.24               48.42         
effective driver of growth of transportation industry 6.17
today. It is however paradoxical that logistics providersLucknow           
in their eagerness to serve own narrow and1.14             
commercial interests have lost sight of the objectives0.95              
of green logistics. The conflict between industry's9.68             
self-interest and the much-avowed green objectives22.50               49.22   
therefore deserves serious debate and action.     83.49
 The objective of this paper is to discuss theNagpur              
significance of the concept of green logistics, transport0.55             
industry related green house gas (GHG) emissions, air0.41              
quality management in urban agglomerations, modal5.10             
shift issue, use of bio-fuels and sustainability issues in16.32                34.99       
general.57.37
  What is Green Logistics?Grand Total      35.31          
  The concept of ‘greenness' came to be 29.84          422.88           
discussed in relation to the transportation industry809.69             2299.21    3597.20
during the eighties and nineties, especially after theSource: (3)
World Commission on Environment and Development The air pollution levels in our cities are disturbing
Report, 1987 announced environmental sustainability asindeed. The number of motor vehicles moving on Indian
a goal for international action. The transportationroads today is certainly much more than the figure of
industry was identified as one of the culprits7.2 crore in 2004 (See Table  3). What is more
contributing to environmental degradation. Studies andalarming is their concentration in metropolitan cities like
reports had also suggested that environment ought toDelhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Delhi, for instance,
be incorporated in the logistics framework or supplywhich had 1.4 percent of Indian population accounted
chain paradigm. The term ‘green logistics' has sincefor 7 percent of total motor vehicles in the country.
then become a catchword.Another worrying feature is that while the share of
 Traditionally, logistics takes care of the forwardmass transport (buses) is quite below the desired
distribution of products which includes transport,range of 60-85 for two million plus cities, the share of
warehousing, packaging, inventory management andpersonalized transport (cars and two wheelers) and
information processing starting from the producer topara- transit (autorikshaws and taxis) is above the
the retailer and end user. Environmental considerationsoptimal range of 10-20 in most cities.
require that, as a corollary, care has also to be taken The impact of such a rapid growth of vehicle
of ‘reverse logistics' which involves recycling andpopulation in the background of grossly inadequate
disposal of waste and used materials. Reverse flowroad space, poor street furniture, illegal encroachment
logistics have, in fact, opened up a new market for theby hawkers, parked vehicles and pavement dwellers
take back (10). In fine, the entire life cycle of a productcan be easily imagined. Most Indian cities today face
- production, distribution, consumption and disposal - hassevere traffic congestion, especially during peak hours
to be considered as part of logistics. Since quite a fewwhen vehicle speeds slow down to 5-10 kms per hour
related operations like inventory, materials handling,in central business district areas. Vehicular emissions in
packaging etc may be outsourced to other agencies,the form of CO2, HCs and NOx drastically increase
operational integration assumes great significance inthe pollution levels.
the total supply chain. In other words, the various Mass transport services like buses and suburban rail
independent operations linked together on asystems are generally overcrowded. They are
transactions-to-transactions basis are buffered byirregular and involve long waiting times. This naturally
inventory.   The focus is on maintaining a continuousleads to a massive shift to personalized transport and
flow of desired velocity by synchronizing all thepara-transit modes. In India owning a motor car is still
activities which form part of the supply chain.considered a status symbol. As a result the neo-rich
 The key benefit of establishing an effectiveare fast joining the car-owners club and it is feared
connectivity is the minimization of transport coststhat the situation may worsen after the rupees
incurred by firms. The logistics expenditure isone-lakh nano car arrives on Indian roads. All this may
comprised of following elements: (a) In-bound logisticsalso lead to a soaring up of accident rates to dizzy
cost (operations), (b) Out-bound logistics costheights. It is time we listen to the wake up call and
(marketing and sales), (c) Service cost, and (d)save ourselves from turning into a car-oriented society.
Management profit (12). The hallmark of an effective Air Quality Management - Measures     
integration in supply chain is (a) Transit time   It is obvious that we need to act without delay
compression, (b) Reliability of service,, (c) Just in timethrough effective intervention in the transport sector. 
(JIT) delivery  (d) Good information systems support,Green transport through green logistics should be our
(e) flexibility in operations (f) Customization and (g)goal. Maintenance of air quality standards is possible
Minimization of ‘back haul' or empty trucks in returnthrough setting an ambient air quality monitoring
journey. The same criteria apply to reverse logisticsnetwork for vehicular emissions and simultaneously
which require management of products returned byhelping motorists to make the transition. The variety of
customers, their recycling or reuse, repair or removalmeasures that need to be undertaken can be on
of products and finding alternate channels to sellfollowing lines:
impaired assets (18). All these have environmental 
implications.- (a) Diesel engines emit carbon particles TSP, heavy
 Transport administration, as part of supply chain ishydrocarbons, sulphate and other by-products of
also of great significance. It involves expertise incombustion, and petrol engines also emit CO, NO and
vehicles and equipment scheduling, load planning, routingother volatile compounds. However, diesel engines are
of freight, advance shipment notification, consolidationconsidered as relatively dirtier and government should
of cargo, tracing the movement of cargo as part ofdiscourage their use through suitable policy measures
control and an efficient information system. It alsoincluding differential pricing (14).
involves documentation in terms of bill of lading and 
shipment manifest and what is quite important, a- (b) The government should promote the use of
competitive pricing strategy (2, 4).alternative cleaner fuels like liquefied petroleum gas
 In modern times international trade has become a(LPG) and compressed natural gas (CNG). Thankfully,
bigger part of world's economic activity. The role ofit is already doing this gradually and effectively. The air
transportation in the global supply chain is now all thequality in Delhi and Mumbai has certainly improved after
more important. Transporters may use a combinationtheir use in public transport buses and autorikshaws. It
of modes like air, road, rail, water, pipelines andshould also take care to establish CNG filling stations
inter-modal. Trucking is normally more expensive thanalong all major roads. Another good news, according
rail or water but it provides the advantage ofto a Research Report by Frost and Sullivan ( ), is that
door-to-door shipment and shorter delivery times. Itcar makers in India are soon likely to roll out models
also eliminates the need for transfer or transshipmentthat run on alternative fuels like CNG and LNG. They
between pick-up and delivery points. Shippersare also developing a converter kit which will transform
therefore often prefer road transport over rail for allan existing petrol and diesel vehicle into a CNG/LPG
short distance movements within the country. When itdriven vehicle. Such converter kits for three-wheelers
comes to global trade, water transport becomes theare already in the market. After this conversion India
dominant mode, although air transport is also preferredwill actually need 10,000 CNG pump stations whereas
for light-weight and perishable cargo.today their number is less than 5000 across 15 cities.
 Transport Industry and Green House Gas (GHG) 
emissions- (c) Use of old vehicles should be effectively curbed.
  Transport is certainly an energy- intensive industryShortage of finance or fear of unemployment should
involving high levels of direct and indirect GHGnot come in the way of enforcement of government
emissions. According to Carbon Budget and Trendsdirectives. Petitions for judicial intervention should be
Annual Report, 2007, global carbon emissions rosequickly dealt with. Obsolete models, except those used
rapidly during 2007 with industrializing nations like Chinafor vintage car ralleys, ought to be made to retire.
and India producing more than half of mankind's output 
of carbon dioxide CO2 which happens to be the main- (d) Improvement in fuel quality in terms of lower
cause of global warming (11). The Report states thatsurphur content in diesel and lower benzene and
emissions from burning fossil fuels was the majoraromatics in petrol should be enforced. The
contributor to CO2 increase and India would soonDepartment of Road Transport of the Government of
overtake Russia to become the world's third largestIndia has rightly promulgated Rules in April 1995
emitter of CO2. It should be noted that 450 parts perregarding use of unleaded petrol and fitting of catalytic
million (ppm) of CO2 leads to two degrees Celsiusconverters in new petrol-driven cars. Similarly, the
increase in atmospheric temperature with disastrousnorms for sulphur content in petrol have been fixed at
consequences in terms of global warming. A wake- up0.1% and for diesel at 0.25%
call to industry, business and our wily politicians is given 
by recent figures of atmospheric CO2 concentration in- (e) Setting up of emission standards for all kinds of
general which rose to 383 ppm in 2007. This was 37%motor vehicles is necessary. Happily, the next
higher than the mean level. China, India, Russia andgeneration emission norms for two-wheelers and
Japan are considered as the big players in CO2three-wheelers have been made effective from April
emissions and in that the vehicular pollution is the main2005. If feasible, the government may start conducting
culprit(6). Country wise figures in the accompanyingemission testing of motor vehicles prior to their
table 1 illustrate the severity (23). registration. It may be stated that the automotive
.Table 1 : Showing GHG emissions for select countriessector of Indian industry is quite sensitive to
Country                  CO2environmental risks and safeguards.
Emissions              Growth Rate 
(In million tones)             (1990-2004)- (f) The local enforcement agencies should launch
 sustained drives against smoke-belching vehicles which
United States                   abound in small and medium sized Indian cities. For this
 Â  25purpose they should bring emission testers to
 Â Â Â  5,007          roadsides for inspection of vehicles. Forced retirement
                  109of older high-polluting vehicles may be resorted to. The
 Â Â Â government should also bring in pedestrian safety laws
 Â Â  23and clear footpaths of all encroachments to allow
 Â Â Â pedestrians their right to walk safely.
 Â Â  97 
 Â Â Â - (g) Better integration between rail transport systems
 Â Â  17and other ‘feeder' bus services and water
 Â Â transport facilities should be brought about by linking
  -18them together. Common ticketing and information
Canada                 systems to offer seamless connections between
 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  54different transport modes can also be thought of.
United Kingdom               Elevated railways integrating LRT and MRT lines may
 Â Â  01be constructed to discourage private car ownership.
 Â Â Â Â Â Â  465  (20)
                            93 Modal Shift
 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The question of changing the modal split in favour of
 Â  15railways and waterways also needs to be addressed
World                           seriously. It is a well-established fact that road freight
 Â Â Â Â  28vehicle movements give out greater carbon emissions
_____________-per tonne kilometer than rail or water borne freight.
Note: Share of developed countries is 15% in worldThe road arteries in India these days are getting more
population,and more congested affecting climate change. The
                              share of rail transport in freight movements, not in
but 50% in CO2 emissions.absolute but relative terms, has been declining relative
  It is also felt that since Russia is effectivelyto road transport, because of the accessibility and
reducing the emission rate, India may soon rank as thirddoor-to-door delivery advantage enjoyed by road
greatest polluter after U.S.A. and China.transport. This however does not augur well from the
 Addressing Urban Transport Air Pollutionenvironment and sustainability viewpoint. There is no
 Transport no doubt plays a crucial role in the properdoubt that Indian rail freight traffic during the last
and efficient functioning of our cities.\, but it is alsodecade has increased in absolute terms thanks to the
responsible mainly for air pollution. Vehicle emissionsContainer Corporation of India - a subsidiary of Indian
are considered a serious issue in most metro cities ofRailways- playing a more customer-friendly role in
the world including India. The levels of Suspendedproviding ISO containers both at port terminals and
Particulate Matter (SPM) is much higher than theinland container depots (ISDs). However, for logistics
standard of 90 (as in 1992) set by the World Healthproviders road transport still continues to be the
Organization (WHO). A comparison of the SPMfavoured mode for the reason that their criterion of
concentration in selected Indian Cities with that in othermeasuring transportation costs differs from that of the
Asian cities is given in Table 2.government. The costs of environmental degradation
 As can be seen, in 1992 each of the three Indianfor them are external and do not need internalization
cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata had exceededfor business accounting purposes.
many times over the WHO limit of 90 SPM and our It is here that policymakers should use their ingenuity
national capital was the worst offender.in evolving such fiscal, regulatory and organizational
 Table 2: Figures of Average Annual SPMmeasures which will bring about a modal shift from
Concentration in Cities of Asia- During 1990-1999 road to rail and water transport. Unfortunately, there is
(WHO SPM limit 90 as in 1992)             no evidence yet of serious thinking on the part of
_policymakers to bring about such environmentally
Bangkok          desirable modal shift from road to rail and water. The
215                       Hongreason is not far to seek. The decision about mode
Kong           55   choice by shippers of freight involves many complex
                 New Delhi       issues. It depends upon a variety of factors influencing
490performance of rail freight movements and the costs
Beijing             in terms of money and time that is to be borne
380                      ultimately. It is therefore necessary to identify the
Kolkata                barriers that prevent the desired modal shift and
394                  evolve suitable measures to achieve the objective. It is
Seoul                101the logistics managers who can really enlighten us on
Busan              the eco-friendly way of influencing mode choice.(   )
100                        Switch to Bio-fuels           
Manila                  Due to soaring prices in the world oil market during the
198                 last few decades, need arose to break free from oil
Shanghai           250and use alternative energy sources like bio-fuels which
Chonguing      would cut oil demand, provide energy security and
250                     prevent climate changes. Simultaneously, efforts were
Mumbai                 252begun to promote research and development in clean
 The blame for rising pollution levels can be laid at thealternative energy options like wind, water, solar and
door of steeply rising vehicle population in Indian citieshydrogen resources. However, a switch to bio-fuels-
as show in Table 3.specifically ethanol - was looked upon as the easier
 Table 3: Total Number of Registered Motor Vehiclesway to achieve the objective (7)
in India during 1951-2004  The question often being asked is whether reliance
 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â on bio-fuels would prove a good strategy. Researches
                          (Figuresundertaken by International Food Policy Research
in thousands)  Institute (IFPRI) reveal a different story (17). During the
Year         All          period 2000-2007 there was a boom in ethanol
Two           Cars, Jeeps        production. Brazil and USA controlled the market
Buses       Goods           Othersproducing 90% of ethanol. European Union (EU) also
              Vehicles    followed suit. Large tracts of land were diverted
Wheelers     &towards production of palm and soya-bean to produce
Taxis                           bio-diesel and towards corn and sugarcane to produce
Vehiclesethanol. This led to a surge in commodity prices
 throughout the period. According to IFPRI, if this trend
1951         306                continues, by 2020 prices of corn are estimated to rise
27             from present 26% to 72%, of sugar from 12% to
159               277% and of oilseeds from 18% to 44%. This scenario
34              is bound to have a serious impact on the poor strata
82                 4of society with diet quality getting reduced and
1961         665                malnutrition spreading to large parts of Asia and Africa.
88               In this situation, rich countries may continue to emit
310               majority of green house gases (GHGs)  and the poor
57             countries will bear the burden of climate change in
168               42terms of hotter climate, lesser rain, and deforestation,
1971        1865              and also low incomes, malnutrition and greater
576            dependence on agriculture and natural resources for
682               living.
94              343              It is feared that the risks in switching to agro-based
170fuels are real. The switch may trigger further
1981        5391      deforestation and destruction of the ecosystem.
        2618          Warnings are therefore being given that agro-fuel
1160               162           policies should not be pursued further without a proper
554              897risk analysis. (1). According to a UNIDO document, "the
1991      21374            key concern here is the competition between land use
14200          2954              for bio-energy production and food and animal food
331           1356            2533production." The fuel versus food issue is really
2000      48857            enigmatic. The document further states that "the
34118          6143              coupling of energy market with food market can
562           2715            5319increase food prices and hence worsen the access to
2001      54991            affordable food for many" (25). This warning can be
38556          7058             ignored only at our peril.
 634           2948             It should be clearly understood that increased
5795prices may result in increased incomes for farmers
2002      58924            and give them their food security, but the overall effect
41581          7613              would depend upon the distribution of increased
635           2974            6121incomes. In the opinion of the Food and Agriculture
2003      67007            Organization (2006) the food versus fuel issue needs
47519          8599              detailed analysis of the possible outcomes of bio-fuels
721           3492            6676policy. The Stanford University's Wood's Institute for
2004      72718          Environment claims that reliance on bio-fuels as part of
  51922         America's new energy plan is not a good strategy. It is
9451               768a fact that USA's Ethanol-from-Corn Program has led
          3749            6829to a rise in prices of food crops due to farmland
diversion. (23) This can happen anywhere and in India
Source: (19) and Transport Research Wing, Ministry oftoo. Lands can be diverted for production of
Road Transport, G.O.I.soya-bean and sugarcane. The decision to switch
 Motor vehicles are prone to emit large quantities offrom fossil fuels to crop-based fuels has therefore to
Total Organic Gases (TOG) including hydrocarbonbe taken with extreme caution. Scientists state that
(HC), Carbon Mono oxide (CO), Fine Particulate Matteragro-fuels production from oilseeds and corn has the
(PM), Nitrogen Oxide (NOx), and Sulphur Oxides (SOx).potential to damage our climate catastrophically.
These air pollutants cause severe health and  Researches are being carried out to produce liquid
environmental effects. The fine Particulate Matter (PM)bio-fuels for transport as such. Here the ‘first
results in aggravating respiratory and cardio vasculargeneration fuels refer to bio-energies made from
diseases and impairing lung function. Besides, thesugar, starch, vegetable oils or animal fats using
environment may get degraded by way of acid rain,conventional technologies. ‘Second generation' fuels
eutrophication, visibility impairment and, of course,refer to those from lingo-cellulose biomass feedback
climate change. According to a study published inusing advanced technologies. In India, we have
Current Science (5), while the Indian economy grew byresorted to gasification of solid bio-mass through
2.5 times during 1975-1995, the vehicle pollution levelsetting up small scale plants mainly in rural areas which
increased by 7.5 times. This is disturbing indeed. Itproduce heat and energy. We should upgrade the
shows that transport system and air pollution aretechnology so as to feed the gases into pipelines or
directly co-related. The emissions from motorizedalternatively compress them for use in transport
vehicles in practical terms depend on vehiclevehicles. In this respect Brazil has a success story to
kilometers, vehicle speeds, life of vehicles andreport. The production of sugarcane ethanol has
composition of vehicle fleet. The emission rates ofreduced that country's dependence on fossil fuels and
different categories of vehicles are shown in Table 4.also ‘cleaned' the industry. (   )
 Table 4:  Emission Rates of Different Categories of   In fine, as long as the thrust is on producing
Vehicles in Typical Indian City in gms/km‘clean' energy and on scaling down petroleum
 consumption, bio-fuels can be considered as welcome.
Vehicle category               CO    But we must carefully assess the fall outs of switching
       HC         NOx     to bio-fuels. President Obama's New Energy Plan for
   SO2          Pb            TSPUSA supports greater use of ethanol produced from
 maize. This has led to increase in food prices,
Two- wheeler                  especially of wheat. If we in the same way produce
8.3            5.18            sugar ethanol in India, it may deplete our water levels
-           0.013       and degrade soil quality. Bio-fuels may not prove to be
0.004            -so ‘green' after all. (23) The sustainability of
Motor car                       bio-fuels does not seem to be as strong as it
24.03          3.57         appeared earlier.
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