کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1029140 | 942606 | 2013 | 7 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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• We evaluate CO2-emissions from consumers’ car travel to shopping centers.
• We compare downtown, with edge-of-town and out-of-town shopping.
• We use GPS to track 250 consumers over a time-span of two months in a Swedish region.
• We find that out-of-town shopping generate an excess of 60 per cent CO2-emissions.
Planning policies in several European countries have aimed at hindering the expansion of out-of-town shopping centers. One argument for this is concern for the increase in transport and a resulting increase in environmental externalities such as CO2-emissions. This concern is weakly founded in science as few studies have attempted to measure CO2-emissions of shopping trips as a function of the location of the shopping centers. In this paper we conduct a counter-factual analysis comparing downtown, edge-of-town and out-of-town shopping. In this comparison we use GPS to track 250 consumers over a time-span of two months in a Swedish region. The GPS-data enters the Oguchi's formula to obtain shopping trip-specific CO2-emissions. We find that consumers’ out-of-town shopping would generate an excess of 60 per cent CO2-emissions whereas downtown and edge-of-town shopping centers are comparable.
Journal: Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services - Volume 20, Issue 4, July 2013, Pages 382–388