Greenhouse gas impact of digitalizing shipping documents: blockchain vs. centralized systems
Digitalizing documents is evaluated as a key value-added factor in greening maritime transportation. Covid-19 accelerates the need for digitalizing shipping documents. However, very few studies analyze digitalization in maritime transportation from the environmental aspect, which is an important top...
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| author | Pu, Shuyi Lam, Jasmine Siu Lee |
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| description | Digitalizing documents is evaluated as a key value-added factor in greening maritime transportation. Covid-19 accelerates the need for digitalizing shipping documents. However, very few studies analyze digitalization in maritime transportation from the environmental aspect, which is an important topic considering the global emphasis on decarbonization. The methods to measure document-related emissions are mainly conceptual guidelines. Therefore, this research aims to develop an estimation framework with concrete methods to quantify the greenhouse gas reductions from digitalizing shipping documents. Taking Singapore and China as examples, this study compares blockchain with centralized systems and an integrated platform with separate platforms. The major results are 1) digitalization can reduce over 99% of document-related emissions; 2) passenger road transport to transfer documents is the largest emission source in paper systems constituting over 90% of emissions per shipping event; 3) blockchain and centralized systems have similar effects on emission reductions; so do integrated and separated platforms. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1604542022-07-22T06:51:26Z Greenhouse gas impact of digitalizing shipping documents: blockchain vs. centralized systems Pu, Shuyi Lam, Jasmine Siu Lee School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering::Environmental engineering Greenhouse Gas Blockchain Digitalizing documents is evaluated as a key value-added factor in greening maritime transportation. Covid-19 accelerates the need for digitalizing shipping documents. However, very few studies analyze digitalization in maritime transportation from the environmental aspect, which is an important topic considering the global emphasis on decarbonization. The methods to measure document-related emissions are mainly conceptual guidelines. Therefore, this research aims to develop an estimation framework with concrete methods to quantify the greenhouse gas reductions from digitalizing shipping documents. Taking Singapore and China as examples, this study compares blockchain with centralized systems and an integrated platform with separate platforms. The major results are 1) digitalization can reduce over 99% of document-related emissions; 2) passenger road transport to transfer documents is the largest emission source in paper systems constituting over 90% of emissions per shipping event; 3) blockchain and centralized systems have similar effects on emission reductions; so do integrated and separated platforms. 2022-07-22T06:51:25Z 2022-07-22T06:51:25Z 2021 Journal Article Pu, S. & Lam, J. S. L. (2021). Greenhouse gas impact of digitalizing shipping documents: blockchain vs. centralized systems. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 97, 102942-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.102942 1361-9209 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160454 10.1016/j.trd.2021.102942 2-s2.0-85114063343 97 102942 en Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| spellingShingle | Engineering::Environmental engineering Greenhouse Gas Blockchain Pu, Shuyi Lam, Jasmine Siu Lee Greenhouse gas impact of digitalizing shipping documents: blockchain vs. centralized systems |
| title | Greenhouse gas impact of digitalizing shipping documents: blockchain vs. centralized systems |
| title_full | Greenhouse gas impact of digitalizing shipping documents: blockchain vs. centralized systems |
| title_fullStr | Greenhouse gas impact of digitalizing shipping documents: blockchain vs. centralized systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Greenhouse gas impact of digitalizing shipping documents: blockchain vs. centralized systems |
| title_short | Greenhouse gas impact of digitalizing shipping documents: blockchain vs. centralized systems |
| title_sort | greenhouse gas impact of digitalizing shipping documents blockchain vs centralized systems |
| topic | Engineering::Environmental engineering Greenhouse Gas Blockchain |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160454 |
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