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Title:

Trade-Off Between CO2 Emissions and Logistics Costs Based on Multiobjective Optimization

Accession Number:

01122011

Language:

English

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-0805

Abstract:

This paper develops a decision-support tool for estimating the balanced market shares of given freight transport systems operating in a given network, satisfying both the minimum costs and the Carbon-Dioxide (CO2) emission requirements. Since CO2 constraints in logistics markets need to be realized in the near future, a modal shift in freight transport could be expected to reduce the CO2 emissions within the reasonable cost/time constraints. In order to clarify the relationship between freight costs and CO2 emissions, the technique of multi-objective optimization is used as the core of the decision-support tool. This tool enables the optimal modal market share to be found as well as the optimal trade-off between the costs and the CO2 emissions. The developed tool is applied to a simplified freight transport network connecting two large European ports – the port of Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and the port of Gdansk (Poland). The initial solution, based on the minimization of freight costs, shows that the mode share of freight is local/regional freight transport situations, while the other solutions balanced with CO2 emissions shows that the mode share is changed into intermodal freight system, which is based on the ‘Hub-and-Spoke’ network.

TRIS Files:

HRIS, MRIS

Report Numbers:

09-0805

Media Type:

DVD

Pagination:

18p

Authors:

Kim, Nam Seok

n.s.kim@tudelft.nl
Delft University of Technology

Janic, Milan

Phone: 31 (0)-15-27-87899
M.Janic@tudelft.nl
Delft University of Technology

van Wee, Bert

g.p.vanwee@tudelft.nl
Delft University of Technology

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2009/1/11 to 2009/1/15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 USA

Availability:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/6

Features:

Figures (4) ; References (18) ; Tables (3)

Index Terms:

Carbon dioxide; Decision support systems; Exhaust gases; Freight traffic; Gdansk (Poland); Hub and spoke systems; Intermodal transportation; Pollutants; Port of Rotterdam

Subject Areas:

Environment; Freight Transportation; Highways; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Last Modified:

Feb 19 2009 2:42PM