Towards sustainable freight transportation: an LCA review

Freight transportation impacts significantly on the environment. A tougher competition for efficiency and sustainability among transportation mode is foreseen in the coming years. However, there is still a gap in the literature concerning the impact assessment of freight transportation, con- sidering all the phases of the life cycle, including infrastructure building, production of vehicles, and end-of-life. This paper aims at reviewing the lite- rature to compare different transport modes, based on a life cycle approach. The results would be pivotal for decision-makers to take informed decisions on which transport modes to incentivize to reduce the environmental im- pacts while ensuring adequate goods movement internationally.