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:
- Transportation models,
- Sustainable supply chain management (SCM),
- Novel models for vehicle routing problems,
- Circular economy and environmental-social sustainability,
- Mathematical models to design sustainable supply chains,
- Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding for sustainable supplier selection
- Internet of things in transportation and logistics,
- Single-objective and multi-objective metaheuristics,
- Exact solution methods such as Benders decomposition and Lagrangian relaxation.
Important Dates
Manuscript submission: March 31, 2019
First review completed: May 31, 2019
Final Submission: July 31, 2019
Possible Publication: September, 2019
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. G.W. Weber
Email: gerhard.weber@put.poznan.pl
Managing Editors
Dr. Alireza Goli
Email: A.goli@stu.yazd.ac.ir
Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee
Email: E.babaee@in.iut.ac.ir
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