Allocating CO2 emission to customers on a distribution route

Naber, Steffie K.; Ree, D.A. de; Spliet, Remy; Heuvel, Wilco van den

doi:10.1016/j.omega.2015.01.017

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“…They suggested that the Shapley value should be used to allocate cost and greenhouse emission savings in order to maintain cooperation among different players. More advanced emission allocation methods for a vehicle routing problem are proposed by Naber (2012). He declared that the cooperative game theoretic methods such as Shapley value generated more fair allocations in a joint delivery.…”

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Emission allocation issues in repositioning transportation

Zhu

Nowak

Erikstad

2014

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

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Various emission reduction methods have been investigated in relation to policy, technology, and operation in academia and industry. Increasing capacity utilization by sharing transportation network and gaining return cargo is one potential approach to achieve this reduction. As a consequence, repositioning of the vehicle is needed in some cases, which needs to be supported by a proper emission allocation scheme to encourage different players to form and maintain a sharing coalition. However, the presence of repositioning adds a level of complexity to the emission allocation issue since empty trips in repositioning transportation carry no cargo themselves to which the emissions can be allocated. For this purpose, we present alternative allocation schemes and investigate the impacts of these schemes on the carbon footprint measurement. A real-life case study is demonstrated and discussed based on a simulation model and analysis of variance (ANOVA). We find that different schemes have significant effects on the distribution of emission among the cargo owners. We suggest that a scheme to share the emissions based on total transport work is preferable because it provides motivation for a joint cooperation between players and improves the environmental performance. The methodology applied in this article can be generalized to other repositioning transport cases in which more players and more logistics legs including empty trips are involved. It also provides insight for policymakers to devise rules for carbon footprint calculations that encourage collaboration and shared transport in complex, multi-stakeholder transportation networks.

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“…This implies the necessity of investigating the impact of emission allocation on decision making in terms of environmental efficiency. On the other hand, although these two issues are relevant, the methods still need to be adapted to the characteristics of the emission allocation issue (Naber, 2012).…”

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Emission allocation issues in repositioning transportation

Zhu

Nowak

Erikstad

2014

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

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“…So far, there are a large number of literatures that deal with the issue of energy consumption or CO 2 emissions at industrial level as well as nationwide Naber et al, 2015), but few studies specialize in analyzing carbon emissions performance and its regional differences in China's agricultural sector. Although there are more advanced methodologies in the literature, such as meta-frontier-DEA , Stochastic frontier analysis (Lin and Du, 2014) as well as some other methods (Chen et al, 2015;Naber et al, 2015), they cannot sever our purpose of identifying the differences of regional CO 2 emission performance in China's agricultural sector.…”

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“…Although there are more advanced methodologies in the literature, such as meta-frontier-DEA , Stochastic frontier analysis (Lin and Du, 2014) as well as some other methods (Chen et al, 2015;Naber et al, 2015), they cannot sever our purpose of identifying the differences of regional CO 2 emission performance in China's agricultural sector. Therefore, we decide to fill the gaps by employing the traditional DEA model, Malmquist index methodology and Theil Index method for the time period 2003-2010.…”

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Regional differences of CO2 emissions performance in China’s agricultural sector: A Malmquist index approach

Lin

Fei

2015

European Journal of Agronomy

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“…Finally, Sichwardt [26], Leenders [27], and Naber [28] consider CO 2 allocation among the customers under a VRP setting. Sichwardt [26] analyzes the problem based on the empirical data of a Swedish medium-sized transportation company.…”

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Developing a Collaborative Planning Framework for Sustainable Transportation

Özener

2014

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Currently, as being the highest petroleum consuming sector in the world, transportation significantly contributes to the total greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Road transportation not only is responsible for approximately 20% of the total emissions of carbon dioxide in the EU and in the US but also has a steadily increasing trend in contributing to global warming. Initiatives undertaken by authorities, such asEmission cap and trade in the EU,limit the emissions resulted from the actions of the companies and also give economic incentives to companies to reduce their emissions. However, in logistics systems with multiple entities, it is difficult to assess the responsibilities of the companies both in terms of costs and emissions. In this study, we consider a delivery network with multiple customers served by a single carrier, which executes a delivery plan with the minimum transportation cost, and allocate the resulting costs and the emissions among the customers in a fair manner. We develop allocation mechanisms for both costs and emissions. In order to develop a mechanism that provides further reduction of the emissions, we study a setting where the carrier takes the responsibility of the emissions and reflects the resulting inefficiencies while charging the customers.

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Allocating CO2 emission to customers on a distribution route

Cited by 27 publications

References 18 publications

Emission allocation issues in repositioning transportation

Emission allocation issues in repositioning transportation

Regional differences of CO2 emissions performance in China’s agricultural sector: A Malmquist index approach

Developing a Collaborative Planning Framework for Sustainable Transportation

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