Special Issues

Transportation and routing models to design a sustainable supply chain

Message from the Editors

Nowadays, companies can prioritize shippers and carriers with standardized environmental, social and economic factors through in-depth transportation procurement solutions. Based on the competitive environment and challenges faced by shippers and carriers in the real-world, companies can potentially leverage that information to make transportation procurement decisions-adding “least environmental and social impacts” into priority considerations, along with “least cost” and “best service”. On the other hand, optimization techniques (e.g., mathematical modeling and heuristic/metaheuristic algorithms) can determine transportation routes to minimize the cost of inbound or outbound shipments, while considering realistic cost, environmental and social impacts with constraint structures. These decision-making processes are implemented to design or redesign transportation routes within a supply chain.

This Special Issue (SI) invites theoretical and empirical scientific contributions that propose methodologies in which a “Transportation or routing model” can improve the level of sustainability in real-world supply chains.

Themes relevant to this SI cover but are not limited to: