Recently, a taxonomic review of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) literature published
between 2009 and June 2015 stated that most of the surveyed articles use metaheuristics …

Due to the complexity and the magnitude of optimisation models that appeared in
sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), the use of meta-heuristic algorithms as …

Traffic congestion is a major concern in urban transportation in supply chain management.
Road-based logistic companies can mitigate their Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions …

Open loading-unloading mode of refined oil shipment will cause oil gas to escape, which not
only refers to the environmental pollution but also economic losses. Therefore, closed mode …

Abstracts All over the world, huge numbers of perishable goods are transported from
suppliers to recipients every day. Some perishable products such as foods and medicine …

Recent years have witnessed an increased awareness of the negative external impacts of
freight transportation. The field of Operational Research (OR) has, particularly in the recent …

Fierce competition and the mandate for green development have driven cold chain logistics
companies to minimize total distribution costs and carbon emissions to gain a competitive …

The control of the environmental impacts is a considerable challenge to the daily operations
of modern logistics companies, especially under the current trend of increasing carbon …

In recent years, issues on global warming and climate change have received public
attention. One of the causes of this problem is carbon emissions in the transportation sector …

In this study, we consider a canonical vehicle routing problem (VRP) in the cold chain
logistic system, where three special constraints are included, ie, the dispatching time …