With Whom to Coordinate and How?: Towards the Adoption of Heavy-Duty Battery Electric Vehicles
2023 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Sustainable development
Climate Improvements
Abstract [en]
Purpose: In logistics systems, the implementation of heavy-duty battery electric vehicles (HBEVs) challenges actors in the transport system, and there is a need for actors to coordinate in various ways. The purpose is to explore how coordination between LSPs and relevant actors in electrified logistics systems can facilitate the adoption of HBEVs.
Design/methodology/approach: The study takes a qualitative approach and relies on four interviews with three LSPs as the empirical basis. Theoretically, coordination mechanisms provide a starting-point for the analysis.
Findings: The findings highlight coordination mechanisms at play in the on-going electrification of logistics systems, as well as the potential use of coordination mechanisms not yet utilised.
Research limitations/implications: The study is performed in a Swedish setting and explore relevant actors and the connections between actors through a coordination lens, thus bridging a gap in the literature.
Practical implications: The results can help actors, such as logistics companies and transport buying companies, to understand how, and with whom, to coordinate to implement long-haul HBEVs.
Social implications: HBEVs are expected to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases and gives possibility to charge with renewable sources, hence the need to support the implementation.
Original/value: While much research into electrification focuses on quantitative studies with a mathematical approach, this paper takes a much-needed actor perspective and highlights how actors can coordinate to carry out a successful transition to fossil free transportation.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023.
Keywords [en]
Inter-organisational, logistics service providers, logistics systems, coordination, transport, heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, electrification
National Category
Transport Systems and Logistics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-198034OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-198034DiVA, id: diva2:1799481
Conference
NOFOMA, Helsinki, Finland, 15-16 June, 2023
2023-09-222023-09-222023-09-28Bibliographically approved