Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1023723 | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review | 2011 | 15 Pages |
This paper investigates a number of operational and environmental performance measures, in particular those related to transportation operations, within a closed-loop supply chain. A mathematical model in the form of a linear programming formulation is used to model the problem, which captures the trade-offs between various costs, including those of emissions and of transporting commodities within the chain. Computational results are presented for a number of scenarios, using a realistic network instance.
Research highlights► Costs of transportation operations outweigh their emission costs in a supply chain. ► Reusable products reduce operational transport costs, but increase emission costs. ► Increasing capacity of low-emission transportation modes reduces emission costs.