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Green Vehicle-Routing Problem of Fresh Agricultural Products Considering Carbon Emission
The need to reduce carbon emission to cope with climate change has gradually become a global consensus, which also poses a great challenge to cold-chain logistics companies. It forces them to implement green distribution strategies. To help the distribution companies reduce carbon emission, this pap...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9322474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35886525 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148675 |
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author | Yao, Qi Zhu, Shenjun Li, Yanhui |
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description | The need to reduce carbon emission to cope with climate change has gradually become a global consensus, which also poses a great challenge to cold-chain logistics companies. It forces them to implement green distribution strategies. To help the distribution companies reduce carbon emission, this paper studies two aspects—carbon tax value and investing in the freshness-keeping cost—and proposes corresponding solutions. A new green vehicle-routing model for fresh agricultural products with the goal of minimizing the total cost is proposed. To solve the model proposed, an improved ant-colony optimization (IACO) is designed specifically. On one hand, the experimental results show that the increase in carbon tax will restrict the carbon emission behaviors of the distribution companies, but it will also reduce their economic benefits to a certain extent, at the same time. On the other hand, investing in the freshness-keeping cost can help actively achieve the carbon emission reduction target, reduce the loss of fresh agricultural products in the distribution process, improve the company’s economic benefits and satisfy customers. The comparison results of different algorithms prove that the IACO proposed in this paper is more effective in solving the model, which can help increase the economic benefits of the companies and reduce carbon emission. This study provides a new solution for cold-chain logistics distribution companies to reduce carbon emission in the distribution process, and also provides a reference for government departments to formulate carbon tax policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-93224742022-07-27 Green Vehicle-Routing Problem of Fresh Agricultural Products Considering Carbon Emission Yao, Qi Zhu, Shenjun Li, Yanhui Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The need to reduce carbon emission to cope with climate change has gradually become a global consensus, which also poses a great challenge to cold-chain logistics companies. It forces them to implement green distribution strategies. To help the distribution companies reduce carbon emission, this paper studies two aspects—carbon tax value and investing in the freshness-keeping cost—and proposes corresponding solutions. A new green vehicle-routing model for fresh agricultural products with the goal of minimizing the total cost is proposed. To solve the model proposed, an improved ant-colony optimization (IACO) is designed specifically. On one hand, the experimental results show that the increase in carbon tax will restrict the carbon emission behaviors of the distribution companies, but it will also reduce their economic benefits to a certain extent, at the same time. On the other hand, investing in the freshness-keeping cost can help actively achieve the carbon emission reduction target, reduce the loss of fresh agricultural products in the distribution process, improve the company’s economic benefits and satisfy customers. The comparison results of different algorithms prove that the IACO proposed in this paper is more effective in solving the model, which can help increase the economic benefits of the companies and reduce carbon emission. This study provides a new solution for cold-chain logistics distribution companies to reduce carbon emission in the distribution process, and also provides a reference for government departments to formulate carbon tax policies. MDPI 2022-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9322474/ /pubmed/35886525 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148675 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yao, Qi Zhu, Shenjun Li, Yanhui Green Vehicle-Routing Problem of Fresh Agricultural Products Considering Carbon Emission |
title | Green Vehicle-Routing Problem of Fresh Agricultural Products Considering Carbon Emission |
title_full | Green Vehicle-Routing Problem of Fresh Agricultural Products Considering Carbon Emission |
title_fullStr | Green Vehicle-Routing Problem of Fresh Agricultural Products Considering Carbon Emission |
title_full_unstemmed | Green Vehicle-Routing Problem of Fresh Agricultural Products Considering Carbon Emission |
title_short | Green Vehicle-Routing Problem of Fresh Agricultural Products Considering Carbon Emission |
title_sort | green vehicle-routing problem of fresh agricultural products considering carbon emission |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9322474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35886525 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148675 |
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