Posts Tagged ‘Sustainability’

Report_Team#1. Part_1.

October 30th, 2009

I. Introduction and the main concept

XX century is the time of great progress in science, particularly in the production technologies. As we know it is time when the second scientific and technical revolution took place. This leap was caused by many events and social processes, such as Second World War, following it Cold War and the development and spreading of democracy. » Read more: Report_Team#1. Part_1.

The research process and example of “Interface”

October 22nd, 2009

Recently our team, including Anastasiya Mangul, Sergey Piskunov, Andrey Filippov and Taisiya Sikorskaya, has had a discussion concerning the sustainability indicators. Firstly, we decided to analyze and distinguish the common sustainability factors, as our way of the problem examination is deduction. During the discussion we’ve found very informative example of company performance in the problem of sustainability. We suppose it’s rather interesting approach and good example, so here it is.

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Sustainability relevant key items

October 20th, 2009

Now I offer some key items of sustainability in transportation:

  1. Environment issues: for example reduce emission. Methods: use clean fuel, clean cars, full loaded, etc.
  2. PPP (People, Planet and Profit): Transport is one of the sectors of the economy with the most challenging tasks facing decision makers. Decision-making needs to balance economic, environmental and social goals.  Methods: pre-calculations, ROI, financially sound, effective value chain, etc.
  3. Networks: information communication is the most important aim on networks. Non-paper business not only means computerize but also considered the environment. Methods: set regional network in a company; create operation system to manage business in every agent, etc.
  4. Fluency and efficient supply chain. Good business relationship is the key performance and push every process advance quickly is important as well.

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