A TWO-DIMENSIONAL EVALUATION OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS
Transport accounts for about a fifth of the overall CO2 emitted within Europe (Helmreich and Keller 2011, p. 4). Consequently, numerous actions are applied in the transport sector in order to reduce the absolute amount of CO2 emitted. One of these actions carried out by private companies is the optimization of inventory locations. Unfortunately, this action is often set on a par with the pure decentralization of logistics networks as the distance to the customer is reduced (Anupindi et al., 2006). However, decentralization does not imperatively lead to a reduction of the overall transport emissions as the trade-off between inbound and outbound-transports is often not taken into account. This study analyses this trade-off between inbound- and outbound-transports within logistics networks in Central Europe. Different scenarios of logistics networks are assumed and compared with each other in a virtual net of customers. These scenarios are analysed based on a two-dimensional evaluation framework in which the economic performance (costs) is oposed to the environmental performance (CO2 emissions).
Distribution Networks CO2 Emissions Centralization
Gerhard Bauer
Institute for Production Management, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Nordbergstraβe 15, Vienna, Austria
国际会议
北京
英文
233-235
2011-06-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）