 The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from freight transport by pooling supply chainsShenle Pan, Eric Ballot and Frédéric Fontane International Journal of Production Economics, 2013, vol. 143, issue 1, 86-94 Abstract: It is well known that freight consolidation is an effective way to improve the utilization of logistics resources. In fact today, this policy is locally and fragmentally implemented at the operational level. We propose here to explore the environmental impact of pooling of supply chains at the strategic level (merging supply chains). With real data from two main French retail chains and through an optimization model, we compute CO2 emissions for two transport modes, road and rail. As regards the general dependency of the emissions produced by the modes of transport on their loads, the emissions functions of the two modes are both piecewise linear and discontinuous functions. The supply network pooling proposed here is an efficient approach in reducing CO2 emissions. Even if the attention is focused on the emissions, the transportation costs are also studied and analyzed. Keywords: Transportation; Pooling; Supply chain; CO2 emissions; Mixed integer programming. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:proeco:v:143:y:2013:i:1:p:86-94 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.10.023 Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Production Economics is currently edited by Stefan Minner More articles in International Journal of Production Economics from Elsevier |
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