Sustainable suburban supply chain

Local Depot-Based Urban Supply Chain for Liveable Cities

“…The graphical interpretation of the proposed approach is presented in Fig. 1 and more detailed description of this approach can be found in [16]. Fig.…”

“…1. Sustainable approach to determine the optimal number of local depots in the supply chain [16] According to Fig. 1 the total impact of USC provided for the urban area can be calculated as follows:…”

“…The local depot-based supply chain has been considered as the key element promoting sustainable urban delivery system within a list of studies [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. The number of LD in the supply channel can be considered as one of the major factors influencing on 2E-USC efficiency.…”

“…Another issue that should be revealed within liveable cities paradigm is the definition of LD number. To solve this problem some of the studies used analytical modeling [15,16] revealing the environmental positive impact provided by 2E-USC. In such a way, the study [15] gave the insights into the environmental efficiency evaluation under LD-based delivery system usage versus private cars.…”

“…The new vison on LD number estimation has been proposed in [16]. Thus, the authors proposed to take into account the monetarized impact of the environment pollution caused by the freight vehicles.…”