2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Structuring the Issues of Cooperative Transport in Reverse Logistics for Efficient Material Recycling

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23760473
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	LE Yiping 東京大学, サステイナビリティ学連携研究機構, 特任研究員 (20573116)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	共同輸送 / 静脈物流 / 課題構造
Research Abstract	The costs required for transportation in the process of waste recycling are very high and become a serious bottleneck for promoting recycling. From the characteristics of reverse logistics for waste transportation, cooperative transport is expected to be an effective way for improving transport efficiency. However, cooperative transport is barely implemented in practices. This research aims to examine the actual situation of reverse logistics, and extracts the issues and successful factors of implementing cooperative transport based on case study of real practices. The stakeholder analysis using problem structuring method finds out that the common external factors of successful cases are large scale of the business while small number of stakeholders involved in cooperative transport. The analysis on the interest of stakeholders indicates the importance of internalizing the incentive of cooperative transport among stakeholders.