TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaborative planning for intermodal transport with eco-label preferences
AU - Zhang, Yimeng
AU - Heinold, Arne
AU - Meisel, Frank
AU - Negenborn, Rudy R.
AU - Atasoy, Bilge
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Collaborative planning
KW - Eco-label
KW - Intermodal transport
KW - Sustainable transport
KW - Vague preferences
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139596348&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.trd.2022.103470
DO - 10.1016/j.trd.2022.103470
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85139596348
VL - 112
JO - Transportation Research. Part D: Transport & Environment
JF - Transportation Research. Part D: Transport & Environment
SN - 1361-9209
M1 - 103470
ER -