GREEN LOGISTICS IN ONLINE RETAILING: LOW-CARBON TWO-ECHELON VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM (LC2EVRP) IN LARGE-SCALE ONLINE SUPERMARKETS

  • Minfang Huang
  • , Chumeng Sun
  • , Yuankai Zhang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Measuring the carbon emissions of logistics in online retailing is crucial for global decarbonization efforts. Large-scale online supermarkets now constitute a significant share of the entire online retail industry. To decrease the cost and carbon emission and examine their involvement in carbon trading in China, the paper presents a solution procedure for the low-carbon two-echelon vehicle routing problem (LC2EVRP) of online supermarkets. First, a mixed integer programming model is built for the LC2EVRP. Then, the paper analyzes the rules and inherent relations of the two stages of LC2EVRP. The pre-assignment genetic algorithm hybridized variable neighborhood search algorithm (PAGA-VNS) is built to address the LC2EVRP. Its pre-assignment customers are based on the principle of proximity and employ a neighborhood search strategy to perturbed assignment. Finally, with a real large-scale online supermarket as the background, numerical cases are constructed to demonstrate the efficiency of the solution algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)261-272
Number of pages12
JournalInternational Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control
Volume21
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2025

Keywords

  • Genetic algorithm
  • Low-carbon
  • Neighbourhood search algorithm
  • Online supermarket
  • Two-echelon vehicle routing problem

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