Increased load factor and sustainable logistics - mapping actions and effects from a transport buyer's perspective

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Purpose of this paperTo increase the load factor is a key element in order to reduce the environmental impact and improve the profitability from transport operations. However, in what way certain actions interact when improving load factor and how this can be measured is scarcely analyzed in literature. The aim of this article is to investigate in what way logistics actions facilitate an increased load factor and how this can be measured in different parts of a transport buyer’s freight handling system. Current and possible actions and their effects on load factor are mapped and categorized.Design/methodology/approachA case study has been performed, studying the outgoing goods flow from the central warehouse of a large retailer in Sweden. A framework, based on empirical data in the case study, is presented.FindingsA number of actions that increase the load factor in the transport buyer’s system have been identified and categorized in the framework according to three load factor indicat

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