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in the online discussion forum World Transport (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/
WorldTransport/messages/).
12. Mayer Hillman, ‘‘More Public Transport Will Make Things Worse,’’ Independent,
July 22, 2000, p. 4.
13. Whitelegg, ‘‘Time Pollution.’’
14. Car sharing is another way to reduce shopping mobility. According to Lennart
Forsebäck, a combination of the two approaches among Stockholm’s 1.4 million
inhabitants could remove two hundred million kilometers in car journeys per year.
Lennart Forsebäck, Case Studies of the Information Society and Sustainable Development
(Brussels: European Commission Information Society Directorate General, 2000),
available at www.forseback.se/pdf/case_infosoc.pdf.
15. The weight of goods transported by road between Spain and Portugal and the
rest of Europe grew in the 1990s from thirty to ninety-four million tons a year.
‘‘D’un réseau ferroviaire asphyxié aux autoroutes de la mer (Asphyxiated by a River
of Steel on Motorways to the Sea),’’ L’Humanité, June 9, 2004, available at http://
www.humanite.presse.fr/journal/2004-06-09/2004-06-09-395145.
16. 244 million containers times 40 feet (13 meters) container length divided by
5,280 feet per mile equals 1,875,000 miles, divided by 240,000 miles to the moon
and back equals (approximately) 8 round trips.
17. Since 1980, according to Bob Delaney of Cass Information, a logistics company
based in Bridgeton, Missouri, the ratio of inventory to GDP in the United States has
declined from 25 percent to 15 percent. Bob Delaney, quoted in ‘‘Container Trade:
When Trade and Security Clash,’’ The Economist, April 4, 2002, p. 65.
18. Jack Short, ‘‘Road Freight Transport in Europe: Some Policy Concerns and Challenges’’
(paper presented at ‘‘European Road Freight Transport in the Third Millennium,’’
Verona, Italy, March 6, 1999, 3, available at http://www1.oecd.org/cem/
online/speeches/JSver99.pdf).
19. Ibid.
20. ‘‘Taking Stock,’’ The Economist, September 22, 2001, p. 63.
Notes to Pages 54–57 241
21. Rosalyn Wilson and Robert V. Delaney, ‘‘Managing Logistics in the Perfect
Storm’’ (Twelfth Annual Cass Information Systems/ProLogis State of Logistics
Report, presented at National Press Club, Washington, D.C., June 4, 2001, available
at http://www.mi-clm.org/downloads/12th%20Annual%20State%20of%20the
%20Logistics.pdf).
22. An excellent source of information on the logistics industry is the website of
Armstrong & Associates (http://www.3plogistics.com/), a consulting company that
specializes in supply chain management and market research.