Logistical activities have a significant global environmental impact,necessitating the adoption of green logistics practices to mitigate environmental effects.The COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasized the urgency t...Logistical activities have a significant global environmental impact,necessitating the adoption of green logistics practices to mitigate environmental effects.The COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasized the urgency to address the environmental crisis.Operations research provides a means to balance environmental concerns and costs,thereby enhancing the management of logistical activities.This paper presents a comprehensive review of studies integrating operations research into green logistics.A systematic search was conducted in the Web of Science Core Collection database,covering papers published until June 3,2023.Six keywords(green logistics OR sustainable logistics OR cleaner logistics OR green transportation OR sustainable transportation OR cleaner transportation)were used to identify relevant papers.The reviewed studies were categorized into five main research directions:Green waste logistics,the impact of costs on green logistics,the green routing problem,green transport network design,and emerging challenges in green logistics.The review concludes by outlining suggestions for further research that combines green logistics and operations research,with particular emphasis on investigating the long-term effects of the pandemic on this field.展开更多
Uncertainty is usually perceived as having negative effects on transportation systems,such as increasing operation cost,decreasing resource utility,and reducing customer satisfaction.However,it is unclear whether this...Uncertainty is usually perceived as having negative effects on transportation systems,such as increasing operation cost,decreasing resource utility,and reducing customer satisfaction.However,it is unclear whether this perception is universally true or is true only under certain conditions.This research compares the performance of transportation systems with uncertain parameters with the performance of the same systems in which the uncertain parameters are replaced by their expectations.The analyses prove that uncertainty can have negative,negligible,and positive impact on the performance of transportation systems under different conditions.展开更多
基金This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of Chiha(Grant Nos.72361137001,71831008,72071173,and 72025103)。
文摘Logistical activities have a significant global environmental impact,necessitating the adoption of green logistics practices to mitigate environmental effects.The COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasized the urgency to address the environmental crisis.Operations research provides a means to balance environmental concerns and costs,thereby enhancing the management of logistical activities.This paper presents a comprehensive review of studies integrating operations research into green logistics.A systematic search was conducted in the Web of Science Core Collection database,covering papers published until June 3,2023.Six keywords(green logistics OR sustainable logistics OR cleaner logistics OR green transportation OR sustainable transportation OR cleaner transportation)were used to identify relevant papers.The reviewed studies were categorized into five main research directions:Green waste logistics,the impact of costs on green logistics,the green routing problem,green transport network design,and emerging challenges in green logistics.The review concludes by outlining suggestions for further research that combines green logistics and operations research,with particular emphasis on investigating the long-term effects of the pandemic on this field.
文摘Uncertainty is usually perceived as having negative effects on transportation systems,such as increasing operation cost,decreasing resource utility,and reducing customer satisfaction.However,it is unclear whether this perception is universally true or is true only under certain conditions.This research compares the performance of transportation systems with uncertain parameters with the performance of the same systems in which the uncertain parameters are replaced by their expectations.The analyses prove that uncertainty can have negative,negligible,and positive impact on the performance of transportation systems under different conditions.
