Since the applications of logistics are generally positive for the efficiency of transport systems, it has been suggested that logistics are environmentally friendly, thus emerged the concept of “green logistics”. Greening supply chains aim to balance marketing requirements with environmental issues. To meet challenges, such as energy conservation and pollution abatement, enterprises have tried...

Evaluating the performance of green logistics project alternatives is challenging due to the presence of numerous decision makers, the multidimensional nature of the evaluation process, and the existence of subjectiveness and imprecision in the decision making process. To effectively deal with this kind of decision making problems, this paper presents a fuzzy multicriteria group decision making...

Over the next few decades European companies will come under intense pressure to cut their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in an effort to achieve very ambitious carbon reduction targets at national, EU and global levels by 2050. This paper presents a framework for the decarbonisation of their logistical activities based on five key freight transport parameters: freight transport intensity, moda...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the area of Green Logistics and to describe some of the problems that arise in this subject which can be formulated as combinatorial optimization problems. The paper particularly considers the topics of reverse logistics, waste management and vehicle routing and scheduling.

Factors influencing the adoption of green supply chain practices for the logistics industry in Taiwan from the perspective of technology, organization and environment are studied. The data came from a questionnaire survey on logistics companies in Taiwan, and 162 samples were analyzed. According to the survey results, all the factors have positive influences on the adoption of green supply chai...

Environmental consciousness has become critical in the design and operations management. In recent years, the sort of issues that have come to light and drawn the attention of managers has extended staggeringly. Sustainable development is a significant component of growing interest for managers who have to address with social and environmental issues related to the own company as well as their ...

This paper proposes a new model of simultaneous optimization of three-level logistics decisions, for logistics authorities, logistics operators, and logistics users, for regional logistics network with environmental impact consideration. The proposed model addresses the interaction among the three logistics players in a complete competitive logistics service market with CO2 emission charges. We...