Collaborative planning for intermodal transport with eco-label preferences

Collaborative planning for intermodal transport with eco-label preferences

Zhang, Y. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics)
Heinold, Arne (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Meisel, Frank (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Negenborn, R.R. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics)
Atasoy, B. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics)

2022

Sustainability is a common concern in intermodal transport. Collaboration among carriers may help in reducing emissions. In this context, this work establishes a collaborative planning model for intermodal transport and uses eco-labels (a series of different levels of emission ranges) to reflect shippers’ sustainability preferences. A mathematical model and an Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search heuristic are proposed for intermodal transport planning of carriers and fuzzy set theory is used to model the preferences towards eco-labels. For multiple carriers, centralized, auction-based collaborative, and non-collaborative planning approaches are proposed and compared. Real data from barge, train and truck carriers in the European Rhine-Alpine corridor is used for extensive experiments where both unimodal carrier collaboration and intermodal carrier collaboration are analyzed. Compared with non-collaborative planning without eco-labels, the number of served requests increases and emissions decrease significantly in the collaborative planning with eco-labels as transport capacity is better utilized.

Collaborative planning
Eco-label
Intermodal transport
Sustainable transport
Vague preferences

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6037b77c-f531-4c5e-846f-07fea191f19a

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103470

1361-9209

Transportation Research. Part D: Transport & Environment, 112

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journal article

© 2022 Y. Zhang, Arne Heinold, Frank Meisel, R.R. Negenborn, B. Atasoy