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Combining Facility Location and Routing Decisions in Sustainable Urban Freight Distribution under Horizontal Collaboration: How Can Shippers Be Benefited?

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  • Hanan Ouhader
  • Malika El Kyal

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This article investigates the potential economic, environmental, and social effects of combining depot location and vehicle routing decisions in urban road freight transportation under horizontal collaboration. We consider a city in which several suppliers decide to joint deliveries to their customers and goods are delivered via intermediate depots. We study a transportation optimization problem from the perspective of sustainability development. This quantitative approach is based on three-objective mathematical model for strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making as a two-echelon location routing problem (2E-LRP). The objectives are to minimize cost and CO2 emissions of the transportation and maximize the created job opportunities. The model was solved with the ε -constraint method using extended known instances reflecting the real distribution in urban area to evaluate several goods’ delivery strategies. The obtained results by comparing collaborative and noncollaborative scenarios show that collaboration leads to a reduction in CO2 emissions, transportation cost, used vehicles, and travelled distances in addition to the improvement of the vehicles load rate but collaboration affects negatively social impact. To evaluate the effect of the method used to allocate the total gains to the different partners, we suggest to decision makers a comparison between well-known allocation methods.

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  • Hanan Ouhader & Malika El Kyal, 2017. "Combining Facility Location and Routing Decisions in Sustainable Urban Freight Distribution under Horizontal Collaboration: How Can Shippers Be Benefited?," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2017, pages 1-18, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:8687515
    DOI: 10.1155/2017/8687515
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    1. Justiani Sally & Wibowo Budhi S., 2022. "The Economic and Environmental Benefits of Collaborative Pick-Up in Urban Delivery Systems," LOGI – Scientific Journal on Transport and Logistics, Sciendo, vol. 13(1), pages 245-256, January.
    2. Vincent F. Yu & Grace Aloina & Hadi Susanto & Mohammad Khoirul Effendi & Shih-Wei Lin, 2022. "Regional Location Routing Problem for Waste Collection Using Hybrid Genetic Algorithm-Simulated Annealing," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-23, June.
    3. Abdessalem Jerbi & Haifa Jribi & Awad M. Aljuaid & Wafik Hachicha & Faouzi Masmoudi, 2022. "Design of Supply Chain Transportation Pooling Strategy for Reducing CO 2 Emissions Using a Simulation-Based Methodology: A Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-21, February.
    4. Thomas Hacardiaux & Jean-Sébastien Tancrez, 2022. "Assessing the benefits of horizontal cooperation for the various stages of the supply chain," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 3901-3924, September.
    5. Alix Vargas & Shushma Patel & Dilip Patel, 2018. "Towards a Business Model Framework to Increase Collaboration in the Freight Industry," Logistics, MDPI, vol. 2(4), pages 1-32, October.
    6. Magdalena Mucowska, 2021. "Trends of Environmentally Sustainable Solutions of Urban Last-Mile Deliveries on the E-Commerce Market—A Literature Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-26, May.

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