A Method to Assess and Reduce Pollutant Emissions of Logistic Transportation under Adverse Weather

Mingkong Zhang, Xiaobing Hu and Jingai Wang
Additional contact information
Mingkong Zhang: Faculty of Geographical science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Xiaobing Hu: College of Electronic Information and Automation, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
Jingai Wang: Faculty of Geographical science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 21, 1-19

Abstract: With the increase of vehicle activities and adverse weather under the background of modernization and global warming, more attention should be paid to vehicle emissions reduction in such circumstances for environmental protection and sustainable transportation. Different from some typical measures, e.g., relevant government policies, improvement of vehicle hardware technologies, and optimization of traffic management, this paper develop a new method based on emergency path optimization to evaluate and reduce pollutant emissions of logistic transportation under adverse weather. Firstly, we establish a calculation model of pollutant emissions (LT-PE model) to calculate the amount of vehicle pollutant emissions produced under adverse weather. Then, a co-evolving path optimization (CEPO) method-based ripple-spreading algorithm is proposed in order to reduce pollutant emissions. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, this paper selects fruit logistics transportation affected by typhoon in China’s Hainan Island as a case study. The results show that total vehicle pollutant emissions from the fruit transportation of 35 farms under the typhoon are 28.1% more than when there is no typhoon. The proposed method can reduce pollutant emissions by 21.2% compared with the traditional methods under typhoon.

Keywords: logistic transportation; vehicle pollutant emissions; adverse weather; path optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/21/5961/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/21/5961/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:11:y:2019:i:21:p:5961-:d:280514

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().