Urban Distribution Mode Selection under Low Carbon Economy—A Case Study of Guangzhou City

Yang, Lei; Cai, Yiji; Hong, Jiahui; Shi, Yongqiang; Zhang, Zhiyong

doi:10.3390/su8070673

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“…The so-called Service Network design term is extensively used to refer to many design planning problems in transportation and distribution systems [7,8] proposed a low carbon network planning model for a city logistic distribution system; their model aims to decide opening distribution centers, and the objective function integrates operational costs with or without tax carbon for comparison purposes. [9] proposed to select among four kinds of typical distribution modes: self-distribution mode, mutual distribution mode, third party distribution mode, and common distribution mode while also reducing the carbon emissions. [10] presented a mathematical model to build a green distribution system minimizing the total cost made up of economic cost, environmental cost, and socioeconomic cost.…”

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A Multi-commodity Network Flow Model for Sustainable Performance Evaluation in City Logistics: Application to the Distribution of Multi-tenant Buildings in Tokyo

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The distribution of goods in crowded city centers is a major challenge. In this paper, we propose a methodology for evaluating the performance of a parcel distribution network in city logistics. This methodology encompasses the main entities of a two-tier distribution system made up of carriers, huge shopping centers (multi-tenant buildings) and intermediate depots (urban consolidation centers), as well as the parcel flows between them. This methodology aims to optimize the transport flows (distance traveled) of a given distribution network while also quantifying the impact in terms of sustainable development by measuring gas emissions. Two different states of the network with different connectivity degrees are evaluated and compared: the current state of the network as well as its future state. The transport network modeling is based on a network flow, which is expressed in linear programming and implemented with an optimization solver. The validation of this methodology is based on the parcel distribution of the Multi-tenant Buildings of the city of Tokyo. The findings are that the network with greater connectivity between the entities brings significant traveled distance reduction as well as a reduction of emissions of CO2. Another finding is that the grouping of the parcels (i.e., pooling) brings a reduction of the distance traveled compared to the transport organization without grouping and contributes to a reduction in the number of trucks.

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A Multi-commodity Network Flow Model for Sustainable Performance Evaluation in City Logistics: Application to the Distribution of Multi-tenant Buildings in Tokyo

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“…Another emerging trend is the use of a variety of simulation-based modeling and evaluation methods to study the G2 topic, such as system dynamic [74], agent-based modeling [75], impact predicting model [2], traffic microsimulation [76], multi-criteria group decision-making [77,78], fuzzy analytic hierarchy process [79], etc.…”

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A Scientometrics Review on City Logistics Literature: Research Trends, Advanced Theory and Practice

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The contradiction between the contribution of city logistics (CL) to sustainable urban development and its negative externalities is increasingly prominent. Policy supervision measures and the green logistics initiative are also in conflict with the management goal of logistics enterprises. Innovative solutions for CL have attracted increasing research attention worldwide. However, the description of the global research network in the field of CL, research trends, and the discussion of advanced theories and practices have not been systematically reviewed so far. Especially in the past three years, there has been an explosive growth of relevant literature. In this paper, the method of combining scientometric analysis and thematic discussion was adopted to systematically review 513 important works in the literature from 1993 to 2018, aiming to provide a holistic understanding of the status in quo, trends and gaps of CL research, and to further analyze prominent problems. The study has made statistical analyses of the publication year profile, journal allocation and research methods of the included literature, and constructed four kinds of visualized bibliographic information timeline maps for the authorship network, international collaboration network, keywords co-occurrence network and research topic clustering. Then, the three themes summarized by clustering are discussed, mainly focusing on CL strategies and policy, green supply chain management, planning methods, and advanced concepts and practices. Finally, the research gaps framework and agenda were reported. This study contributes to summarizing the research and development of city logistics on the whole, and can also serve as an explorative manual to support sustainable urban freight activities and innovative research.

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“…At present, there are many studies in the field of urban distribution. Based on four kinds of urban distribution modes, Yang et al [8] made a detailed analysis in research on the optimal urban distribution mode under low-carbon economic conditions. This study can promote enterprises taking responsibility for carbon emissions consciously and make carbon disclosure.…”

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“…Suppose N = 10, K = 3, the encoding dimension is (10 + 3 − 1) × 1 = 12 × 1, thus a possible encoding can be (0.12, 0.37, 0.22, 0.96, 0.56, 0.35, 0.76, 0.57, 0.38, 0.91, 0.71, 0.26). Using the random key decoding rule, it is easy to get the integer arrangement (1,5,2,12,7,4,10,8,6,11,9,3). The integers 11 and 12 are the so-called sub-path segmentation, and the vehicle routes are:…”

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Optimizing Urban Distribution Routes for Perishable Foods Considering Carbon Emission Reduction

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The increasing demand for urban distribution increases the number of transportation vehicles which intensifies the congestion of urban traffic and leads to a lot of carbon emissions. This paper focuses on carbon emission reduction in urban distribution, taking perishable foods as the object. It carries out optimization analysis of urban distribution routes to explore the impact of low carbon policy on urban distribution routes planning. On the basis of analysis of the cost components and corresponding constraints of urban distribution, two optimization models of urban distribution routes with and without carbon emissions cost are constructed. Fuel quantity related to cost and carbon emissions in the model is calculated based on traffic speed, vehicle fuel quantity and passable time period of distribution. Then an improved algorithm which combines genetic algorithm and tabu search algorithm is designed to solve models. Moreover, an analysis of the influence of carbon tax price is also carried out. It is concluded that in the process of urban distribution based on the actual network information, path optimization considering the low carbon factor can effectively reduce the distribution process of CO 2 , and reduce the total cost of the enterprise and society, thus achieving greater social benefits at a lower cost. In addition, the government can encourage low-carbon distribution by rationally adjusting the price of carbon tax to achieve a higher social benefit.

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Urban Distribution Mode Selection under Low Carbon Economy—A Case Study of Guangzhou City

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

A Multi-commodity Network Flow Model for Sustainable Performance Evaluation in City Logistics: Application to the Distribution of Multi-tenant Buildings in Tokyo

A Multi-commodity Network Flow Model for Sustainable Performance Evaluation in City Logistics: Application to the Distribution of Multi-tenant Buildings in Tokyo

A Scientometrics Review on City Logistics Literature: Research Trends, Advanced Theory and Practice

Optimizing Urban Distribution Routes for Perishable Foods Considering Carbon Emission Reduction

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