Low carbon logistics: Reducing shipment frequency to cut carbon emissions

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 164, Issue , 2015, Pages 339-350

  Tang, Shaolong ^a   Wang, Wenjie ^b   Yan, Hong ^b   Hao, Gang ^c  

^a BNU HKBU UNITED INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Logistics; Low carbon; Periodic review system; Stochastic inventory model

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COST REDUCTION; EMISSION CONTROL; INVENTORY CONTROL; LOGISTICS; SHIPS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EMISSION REDUCTION; EMISSION REDUCTION TARGETS; LOW CARBON; LOW CARBON LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERIODIC REVIEW SYSTEMS; PERIODIC-REVIEW INVENTORY SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC INVENTORY MODEL;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84927978812     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2014.12.008     Document Type: Article

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