ISL 2016: Sustainable transport and supply chain innovation

Abstract

Declining natural environment quality presents challenges and opportunities for academics and business executives. Supply chain innovation and sustainable transport are issues that have attracted increasing attention to modern logistics and transport research worldwide. Using the academic search engine, Google Scholar, to search the keywords supply chain innovation and sustainable transport, the results showed 126 and 1,680 literatures in 2007, and 470 and 3,720 literatures in 2016 on these research topics. Innovation is classified into technological innovation, organisational innovation, and market innovation. Technological innovation is particularly important to the service sector in terms of its rapid ICT development (Chapman et al., 2002).