Smart City Logistics on the Basis of Digital Tools for ESG Goals Achievement

Sergey Evgenievich Barykin, Anna Viktorovna Strimovskaya, Sergey Mikhailovich Sergeev, Larisa Nikolaevna Borisoglebskaya, Natalia Dedyukhina, Igor Sklyarov, Julia Sklyarova and Lilya Saychenko
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Sergey Evgenievich Barykin: Graduate School of Service and Trade, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 St. Petersburg, Russia
Anna Viktorovna Strimovskaya: Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 194100 St. Petersburg, Russia
Sergey Mikhailovich Sergeev: Graduate School of Industrial Management, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 St. Petersburg, Russia
Larisa Nikolaevna Borisoglebskaya: Physics and Mathematics Department, Orel State University, Komsomol’skaya St. 95, 302026 Orel, Russia
Natalia Dedyukhina: Department of Accounting and Audit, Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University, 190031 St. Petersburg, Russia
Igor Sklyarov: Department of Economic Analysis and Audit, Stavropol State Agrarian University, 355017 Stavropol, Russia
Julia Sklyarova: Department of Financial Management and Banking, Stavropol State Agrarian University, 355017 Stavropol, Russia
Lilya Saychenko: Department of Development and Exploration of Oil and Gas Wells, St. Petersburg Mining University, 199106 St. Petersburg, Russia

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 6, 1-20

Abstract: The development of modern logistics systems requires state-of-the-art solutions for simultaneously achieving sustainable development goals and ambitious business targets. On this issue, the challenge of implementing digital technologies in social life, in particular in smart cities, deserves special attention. The diversified application of Industry 4.0 doctrine and digital shadow penetration to all fields of socioeconomic systems highlights the gaps in the design, control, and efficiency assessment of digital tools in the logistics of smart cities. Another challenge concerns the need to consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles amid the deployment of harmonic digital tools within urban territories. All these issues require a complex methodological approach toward understanding the role of IT in the modern economy through an ESG prism. The article contains a contemporary literature review on the related topic and the conceptual framework of city logistics digitalization under ESG perspectives and constraints. The mathematical model proposed by the researchers enables a multidimensional design of digital solution applications within smart city logistics performance. The designed discrete stochastic model is eligible for scaling toward and the further development of variables other than the key ones mentioned above. The mathematical formalization of the proposed model considers the distribution of the limited budgeting of administrative branches within city logistics, highlighting the research relevance in connection with the ESG principles.

Keywords: smart city logistics; omnichannel logistics; ESG principles; digitalization; 4.0 logistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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