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Sustainable supply chain networks and transportation
International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (2007)
  • Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Ladimer Nagurney
Abstract

capacities and the links' operational costs. Moreover, the firm is aware of the emissions generated associated with the alternative manufacturing plants, storage facilities and modes of transportation/shipment, which may have different levels of emissions due, for example, to distinct technologies of, respectively, production, storage and transportation. The firm is assumed to be a multicriteria decision-maker who seeks to not only minimise the total costs associated with design/construction and operation, but also to minimise the emissions generated, with an appropriate weight, which reflects the price of the emissions, associated with the various supply chain network activities. We provide both the network optimisation modelling framework and an algorithm, which is then applied to compute solutions to a spectrum of numerical sustainable supply chain design examples in order to illustrate our approach.

Publication Date
2007
Citation Information
Anna Nagurney and Ladimer Nagurney. "Sustainable supply chain networks and transportation" International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Vol. 1 (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/anna_nagurney/161/