STUDY ON THE GREEN TRANSPORT IN BI-TYPED SOCIETY

CONSTRUCTION

Xueqian Fan

Wuhan Textiles University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430200, P.R. China

Keywords: Bi-typed society, Green logistics, Green transport.

Abstract: It is well-known that contemporary logistics is the engine for social development in modern era. Both of the

natures comply with each other to construct bi-typed society and to develop green logistics. BTSC demands

greenized management on logistics and transport as a column activity has to be greenized, too. On the basis

of BTSC the paper explores for the developing programme and requirement for green transport and analyzes

the effects and significance from green transport on BTSC and enterprises' construction and puts forward

the measures to develop green transport.

1 BI-TYPED SOCIETY AND ITS

BACKGROUND

"Bi-typed society" implies resource-saving and

environmental friendly, which through high-efficient

and recycling utilization, rational allocation and

effective protection, suit the economic social

development to the environmental capacity of

resource and cast a sustainable development and

harmonized community between human being and

nature. It is crucial for the construction of resource

saving and environmental friendly so that it is

possible for human production and consumption to

co-ordinate with natural eco-system. BTSC

represents human developing notion for the time

being, which is also the protruding social attributes.

Entering millennium, China has been in a golden

boosting age. Its economical and comprehensive

powers and international position have been lifted,

bringing industrialization, urbanization,

marketization and internationalization a fast pace.

However overally, the primitive-type economy

remains with little improvement. The low utilizing

efficiency, bottle-necks, pollution etc. have not been

modified.

Concerned data show our energy consumption

increases rapidly with the major raw materials

consumption surpassing the growth of GDP. The

Chinese demands for energy and raw materials

expand swiftly causing profound impact on

international market. In comparison with developed

countries, China's energy utilization is much lower.

The environment deteriorated, water pollution and

so on. Those give rise to the unfavourable influence

on people's health and restriction for the sustainable

development of our economical society.

Against this fact, Central Committee called for

the construction of resource-saving and

environmental friendly society and further indicated

to enhance energy-resource-saving and eco-system

protection and the ability for sustainable progress.

That is no doubt a great and scientific strategy for

the promotion of our economic society. BTSC is not

at all to simply keep and hold resource, but to insist

on production forwarding, living flourishing and

eco-system cleaning, realizing speed, structural

quality and efficiency uniformed, economic progress

harmonized with population resource environment.

Thus makes an excellent eco-system for

manufacture and life, which has the following

characteristics:

 Harmonization. BTSC is a brand new social

developing mode concerning man and nature

co-existing. man and man overally

harmonization in community. BTSC is the

essential content for erecting harmonized

society or inherent requirement for scientific

progress. glancing at its nature, resource

environmental issue is between man and nature

in harmony, in fact also a social relationship

between and men in harmony.

 System Compounding. BTSC's attribute lies at

system compounding correlated to overall

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DOI: 10.5220/0003590303940399

In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (SSSCM-2011), pages 394-399

ISBN: 978-989-8425-54-6

 2011 SCITEPRESS (Science and Technology Publications, Lda.)

respects as society, economy and culture.

Resource issue is one about the nature,

economy, society, politics, technology and

concept for culture as well. Those issues cross

and affect mutually. BTSC is also a interaction,

made up of technology, products and enterprise

for saving and friendly, participated in by social

organization and public.

 Comprehensive Participants. Bi-typed society is

a society in which the government, enterprises,

social organizations and public participate. The

formation and evolution of bi-typed society

need not only the promotion and guidance from

government, enterprise active participation and

support, but also the total society's fostering the

urgent notion about natural resource and

eco-environment, forming a real agreement on

BTSC and putting the idea in daily life.

 Open-Up. BTSC radical requirement aims at

building scientific developing system of

resource-saving and environmental friendly.

Those fields are demanded to be opened,

co-operating and reforming, such as the

renewing of system, mechanism, enterprise

development and various organizations and

public participants. Self-sealed make can't be

adopted at all. However all those should be

refused as consumption of resources and

pollution of eco-environment.

 BTSC Renewing and Promoting requires

reforming and renewing. In order to create new

mode, new technology and new system, the

obstacles in the system renewing course must

be swept out and the self-renewing ability

should be the centre section.

2 GREEN LOGISTICS AND

GREEN TRANSPORT

Green logistics is defined to sterilize logistics

environment having sufficient usage of logistics

resource in the process of logistics to restrain

harmful logistics in environment. This includes the

overall greenization, logistics front activities and

logistics management. Viewed from process steps,

they are green transporting, warehousing, packaging

and distribution processing and so forth. From

respect of logistics management course, mainly

environmental protection and resource saving, it is

important for logistics system, considering positive

logistics, greenization and reverse logistics

greenization in supply chain. Commonly speaking, 3

targets must be bitten to implement green logistics

management. First, to realize co-existing logistics,

which explains that never elevate logistics efficiency

at the cost of environment and sacrifice of

eco-system. Nevertheless should actively and

effectively take technical measures to bring the

progress for both logistics and environment.

Secondly, realizing resource-saving logistics through

contractual, scientific and rational allocation of ERP

for the optimum utilization of various materials. The

final targets are output/unit resource reaching

maximum, minimizing waste in the course of

transport, packaging, warehousing and distribution

processing. Third, recycling type of logistics with

precaution-oriented countermeasures and overall

process flow of production and operation to

minimize the wastes, retrieve and recycle the

by-products, packages, scraps and garbage. This is

called resourcing again. Those 3 targets are mutually

connected and controlled with realization for those 3

targets. The targets of enterprises are in line with the

social progressing target, environmental

improvement and win-win is available between

enterprises and society. Therefore green logistics'

ultimate aim is at sustainable development and

realizing criterion is the co-ordination among

economical, social and environmental interests.

Green logistics has much high standards in

comparison with normal logistics activities. The

former requires acuter and complexer. Normal

logistics is meant for the profits of logistics

enterprises, satisfying the customers and enlarging

the proportion in market shares. All in all they serve

certain bodies in economic income. Green logistics

apart from the above targets for economy, pursues

resource-saving and environmental protection

treating both economic and social favours. It is

strictly demanded for green logistics in operational

conditions. Usually each index for environment will

be adopted for green logistics, too. For example,

those indexes contain noise, exhaust, dust and

vibration. If judged satisfied, will be authenticated to

encourage and vice versa.

Green transport is attributed with

resource-saving and exhaust minimizing. The

implementation mainly encompasses reasonable

selection of transport means and routes , getting rid

of repeated carriage so as to save energy and reduce

exhaust. Improving internal-combustion technology

and adopting clean fuels to increase capacity and

preventing leakage on route lest local severe

deterioration in environment.

Green transport, judged from sustainable

development, saves energy and resource,

diminishing pollutions and protect natural

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eco-environment. Those are fundamental demands

of sustainable development on green transport. As to

developing countries, communication is still an

indispensable factor controlling the social economic

progress. Therefore it is significant for our nation to

establish the traffic network and infrastructure,

which can satisfy Sustainable development. In

practice it is necessary to further strengthen traffic

communication and infrastructure erection and try

its growth in match to the requirement from social

economic development. The traffic network layout

should be suitable to the needs of industries and

agricultural production and population distribution.

Moreover when progressing traffic infrastructural

building, the impact should be paid attention to,

which road construction causes to eco-social

environment. In addition, the existing facilities need

modification, especially the effective measures

should be taken to minimize the consumption of

scarce earth resource, while the new network is

emphasized on to erect. As to the 5 modes of

transport like, railway, road, waterway, air and pipe,

should be guaranteed mutually coordinating and

avoid repeat erection, on the basis of which all

advantages of individual modes can be engaged.

Compound in one transport is combined with those 5

transport types to save energy, environmental

protection and realize to the greatest extent the

sustainable green transport. The following measures

may be applied.

 Inter-Modal Transport. In terms of experience

from developed countries, it is an effective way

to implement inter-modal for logistics

greenization, which reduces packing cost,

damage of goods or short weight in transit. It

overwhelms the inherent shortage of individual

modes, selecting the optimum route and

integrating each modal. It generally guarantees

the optimum and efficiency for the whole

transport and also reduces the energy, waste

and environmental pollution. On the other hand,

in terms of logistics channel, this resolves well

the commodity separation in space and time

caused by geography, climate, infrastructure

and various marketing conditions. The

combination between production and sales is

strengthened, enterprise production and

operation run smoothly as well. It is not at all

pure transport method transfer, but also the

conscientious of transporting enterprises and

carriers.

 Consolidated Distribution. As a contemporary

circulating organizational mode, distribution

Integrates business, logistics and information in

one, which is a peculiar operation for logistics.

The transport is defined as commodity and

service movement between two ends far from

each other while on the opposite side, short

distance, small quantity, but high frequent

movement is named distribution. Consolidated

distribution is organized by multi-encompasses

for local customers with minor quantity and

LCL and low utilization of vehicles.

Consolidated distribution can lift to the top

efficiency for HR, materials, capacity, time and

resource. At the same time, unnecessary

crossing carriage may be eliminated, relieving

the traffic, protecting the environment for the

society. For enterprising circle, the way to

realize consolidated distribution. saving energy

and preventing environment from pollution is to

promote logistics greenization.

 Paperless Business on Electronic Transaction.

There is a tendency of multi-item and small

quantity requirements. It demands the handy

and reliable enterprise information system.

Therefore It is crucial to elevate the logistics

system and operating efficiency by way of:

establishing stock control information system,

distribution system, customers' information

system and decision making system, cargo trace

and vehicle management system. Furthermore

improving the operating information platform

between enterprises and connect individual

networks forming uniformed management and

coordination. This can enlarge logistics service

and distribution space for the purpose of

sufficient utilization of logistics resource.

Logistics transport greenization aims at

diminishing energy consumption in transport, waste

exhausting and occupying road through effective

logistics systematic progress and control while

guaranteeing the service target as a premise.

Thereby we insist on principles in the practice Of

transport greenization: safety, on time and accuracy,

electronic effect in conformity with environmental

effect, people and vehicle management in

combination on the basis of these 4 principles

through technical improvement to relieve actually

the influence on environment caused by various

transport materials. Select and utilize those modes

towards environment, establish the managing system

for drivers training and performance, carry out urban

logistics system programme to realize the target.

In the meantime against the situation that

logistics gradually evolves from manufacturing to a

two-way with sales added. The correlation of

logistics penetrates consuming fields. It is regarded

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that logistics management of all-directional

development should be pushed from the vision of

environmental co-existing. However environmental

co-existing logistics is just the achievement guided

green logistics. Hence transport as a core of logistics

appears especially essential to deploy greenized

management.

3 THE UNIFORMING OF

MODERN LOGISTICS AND

BTSC

Logistics suits the requirements from social

production, applying information technology and

supply chain management. It integrates transport,

storage, handling, packaging, distribution process,

distribution and information process, which is a new

industry and also a compound service by the

crossing among transport, warehousing, traffic

forwarding etc. It concerns to a comprehensive field

employing more labour, promoting production,

initiating consumption. It is an indispensable part of

national economy, engaged in enterprise structure

adjustment, modifying economical development

mode and enhance our national economic

competitive power. As the economical globalization

and information pace are boosted logistics

enterprises have become a benchmark against a

nation's modernization and comprehensive national

power. Naturally it concludes that logistics develops

closely to the economically social progress.

Contemporary logistics belongs to green

logistics, which requires a modification to the

logistics system viewed from environment, forming

environmental co-existing logistics system. This

logistics system is founded on the basis of

environmental protection and sustainable

development. The single directional effecting

relation should be improved between the past

economical development and logistics, consumption

and logistics. When restricting traditional linear

logistics harm to environment, a brand new attitude

and concept should be adopted for harmonized

treatment to environment. To design and set up an

environmental and recycling type can lead to

retrieval flow from traditional logistics end to

normal logistics course. Modern logistics

emphasizes on long term and general interests,

concerning to environment and reflecting the

responsibility sense of enterprises. For example the

Ministry of Traffic Transport has promulgated

"Resource-Saving, Environmental Types of Road,

Waterway Traffic Developing Policy." Pinpointing

the guidance and fundamental policies to push the

green logistics, transfer the developing mode,

gradually fostering the ability of 3 services. That is a

transport guarantee for a Faster and better

development of economic society.

It sufficiently shows that modern logistics

enterprises complies fully with the inherent

requirement for BTSC, which explains as, the

requirements for low investment with high output,

low energy consumption with minimum exhausting,

recyclable and sustainable national economic system

and resource-saving, environmental friendly society.

Resource-saving society implies the entire social

economy built on resource-saving basis, the column

of which is to save energy. Environmental friendly

society is a social mode with human being and

nature in harmony, the column of which is a

coordinate development of human being production

and consumption with natural eco-system. That is to

say, economy can not develop at the cost of

environmental sacrifice. On the contrary it should be

on principle of optimum structure, high efficiency,

low consumption and environmental protection.

Through the radical analysis on BTSC and logistics

enterprises we can draw the following conclusion.

Modern logistics industry fits BTSC in terms of

attitude and effect. Promotion of modern logistics

industry has the same inner requirements as BTSC.

The realistic significance for BTSC is to push the

development of modern logistics industry.

Green transport is not only essential for

environment and social economic sustainable

advancing, but also brings tremendous economic

efficiency for the enterprises. More and more

enterprises have recognized the importance of green

logistics, which has been clarified valuable for

both the society and enterprises.

 Green Transport assists social economic

sustainable development built on the basis of

protecting the global environment. It lays stress

on the entire transport course applying the

notion and measures harmonized with the

environment, diminishing logistics harm on it,

avoiding resource-wasting, favouring social

sustainable advancement.

 Green transport in favour of responsibility

sense and competitiveness of enterprises. A

favourabel reputation should be establihsed

while chasing the profit. Green transport

building is beneficial for enterprise: consolidate

brand value and lifespan, extend product life

cycle, which indirectly strengthen enterprises'

competing power.

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 Green transport is beneficial to reduce the

operating cost. Green logistics pays more

attention to greeenization and energy saving

with less pollution that production is largely

reduced.

 The developing strategy for green transport.

Green transport represents future. The

competition in energy and resource has become

a vital part of potential development for every

country. In the post-crisis era, saving and

exploring has become first and foremost issues

while energy-saving and exhaust reducing

should be laid stress on to traffic transport. It is

not only beneficial to carry out international

obligation, but also to traffic transport with

healthy and consecutive progress.

There is a general guidance as, publicity, science

and technology, system and regulation and

implementing, as follows:

 Government control. Policy and law should be

promulgated. At the beginning of transport

greenization, government should pay great

attention to it making and perfecting law and

provisions. Dependent on law and must be so,

and seriously dependent on law, offensives be

punished by law. Rewarding and punishing

Acts against saving and reducing must include

taxation, finance, economy and administration.

For instance, strict standards for transport

vehicles, abolishing old and high-consuming

vehicles and deploy a comprehensive study on

applicable technology for energy-saving and

exhaust reducing. Both economic and financial

measures could be taken. The policy preference

should also be given in road tax and passing fee

so as to guide the enterprises purchasing and

applying energy-saving,

environmental-protection and standard vehicles.

Administration is implemented to perfect the

provisions of classification and types

Recommendation for vehicles, promoting

advanced and saving types, overally leading a

smooth transport greenization.

 Concept Transfer. Awareness of

all-participation is the newest concept for green

transport which requires enterprises based on

sustainable development in long term vision for

benefits. That demands enterprises' leaders and

stuffs modify to found a concept of

all-participation. Energy-saving and

exhaust-reducing is a systematic project in need

of dept. co-op, further more enterprises' leaders

presence and comprehensive, profound and

long term propaganda, which at last makes all

stuffs a conscious behaviour. All-participation

also encompasses enterprises' guidance with

green concept, the programme and product

structure, actually making the green

programme, implementing green project. To

those workers on the front site, education of

green concept and products, perishing

environment is necessary. Thus the concept of

environmental protection, eco-system and green

is people's insight.

 Green Transport Process Flow. This includes

transport restructure for handling in time and in

safety, storing and processing in fresh and

stable quality, packing, information processing

in health, environmental protection and

non-damage in any sections. Thereby

enterprises should first select green transport

tactics implementing consolidated and

uniformed transport, which reduces total

movement including transferring to railway, sea

and air carriage. Efficiency of distribution can

be increased by sufficient utilization like: to use

green traffic means to lower exhaust. And then

consolidated distribution should be adopted to

reduce pollution. This is done by small and

medium enterprises of the same industry or

same region. It uniformly consolidates the

goods and distributes to reduce the cargo-flow

diminishing crossing carriage. It can also lift

the efficiency for municipal freighting with

reduction of empty-loading and transporting.

This as well improves service, lowers the stock

to just in time.

 Implementing green marketing strategy. The

so-called green marketing is still on

conventional basis but emphasizes on 3 sides'

benefits uniformed. They are, consuming,

enterprises and environment. This is a kind of

comparatively advanced social marketing.

Green working pays much more attention to

environment than social logistics.

Implementation of green marketing firstly lets

enterprises enhance their own international

competitiveness in environmental protection.

On the other hand, as enterprises undertake

correlated social obligations, it gives rise to the

effect on public consuming behaviours.

Therefore, the utilization of green marketing

promotes green product sales.



Enforcing transport organization management.

Through this a central city, regional economic

circle and a public transport information

platform can be actively constructed. In

addition, through commonly sharing transport

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market information, empty-loading can be

reduced, lower carbon economy is realized for

green supply chain operating mode, sharing

virtual operating preference. An energy-saving

assessing system for transport enterprise should

be founded for route approval and resource

allocation preferred for energy-saving type.

Comprehensively deploying public traffic and

rural passenger transport as well as water way

that satisfies bulk goods transport. Erection of

encouragement and restriction is a way towards

higher organization of logistics.

 Actively training talents for green transport. QC

group enforces all-stuff awareness for resource

risking, energy-saving, environmental

protection and "DIY" to train their operating

skills with less energy. For instance, contests

for green drivers advocates green drive and

energy-saving sense. Transporting enterprises

offer more training and advice of oil-saving

against interior operation. Combining

energy-saving, consumption reduction with

drivers' performance assessments. This is in

assistance to resource-saving and

environmental friendly industries.

 Foreign advanced know-hows may be

borrowed, introduced and digested. Owing to

the global trading, road transport quantity

increases causing green house exhausting as

one of the majorities. Scania has put forward a

general solution integrating old with new

concepts against sustainable traffic. His

proposal calls for the use of recycling fuel,

multi-power technology, drivers' training and

higher-efficient logistics system. Scanian trucks

forged green transport system, estimated to

reduce exhaust by 50%, which is especially

worth learning and borrowing.

4 CONCLUSIONS

Proved by practice both domestic and abroad

economies, no exception, that high-efficient

environmental protection is economic developing

life for modern logistics. Modern logistics

breakthrough from green transport, which casts the

condition for Bi-typed society construction.

Environmental friendly realizes the sustainable

development for society, economy and environment.

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