Modeling a green inventory routing problem with a heterogeneous fleet

This paper introduces a green inventory routing problem with a heterogeneous fleet which extends the conventional inventory routing problem by considering environmental impacts and heterogeneous vehicles. A comprehensive objective is proposed, which minimizes the sum of inventory cost and routing cost, where the latter includes driver wage, vehicle fixed cost, fuel and emission costs, in which fuel consumption and emissions are determined by load, distance, speed and vehicle characteristics. The authors first construct a mixed-integer program, and then conduct numerical tests to quantify the benefits of using a comprehensive objective and heterogeneous vehicles. Managerial insights are also drawn from parameter analyses.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2016.11.001
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1366554516302587
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Cheng, Chun
  • Yang, Peng
  • Qi, Mingyao
  • Rousseau, Louis-Martin
• Publication Date: 2017-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 97-112
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
  • Volume: 97
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1366-5545
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13665545

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fleet management; Fuel consumption; Inventory; Pollutants; Routing; Sustainable transportation
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01620017
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 28 2016 8:52AM