Logistics and its environmental impacts

Abstract

Nowadays logistics plays a significant factor in competitive strategies based on leadership within costs, differentiation (also within logistics service), shortening time cycles and the use of the company's capacities. The management-oriented integration of all logistics functions and processes becomes more important, because it is conditioning not only effective enterprise modernisation, but also opening new possibilities of solving problems and using potential effects in the operating and strategic activities. The number of motor vehicles on our roads is huge and still growing. The advantages of increased mobility need to be weighed against the environmental, social and economic costs that transport systems pose.