Greening road freight transport: evidence from an empirical project in Austria

Environmental management has become an important business topic throughout the last decade. Road
transport, in this respect, is still regarded as one of the main sources of environmental pollution. In this
paper we investigate the role of intention, firm size and sector affiliation for the implementation of
environmental management in the Austrian road freight transport sector. Our findings are based on data
from 259 companies operating in either transport for hire or reward sector or in other fields regularly
performing own account transport. They show that large companies not belonging to the sector of
transport for hire or reward but to other industries with a strong intention to act sustainably are most
likely to implement and perform environmental management