<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This model optimizes port hinterland intermodal refrigerated container flows, considering both cost and quality degradation, which is distinctive from the previous literature content in a way that it quantifies the influence of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission in different setting temperature on intermodal network planning. The primary contribution of this paper is that the model is beneficial not only to shippers and customers for the novel service design, but also offer, for policy-makers of the government, insights to develop inland transport infrastructures in consideration of intermodal transportation. The majority of models of multimodal system have been established with an objective of cost minimization for normal commodities. As the food quality is possible to be influenced by varying duration time required for the storage and transportation, and transportation accompanied with refrigeration producing more CO2 emission, this paper aims to address cost minimization and quality degradation minimization within the constraint of CO2 footprint. To achieve this aim, we put the quality degradation model in a mixed-integer linear programming model used for intermodal network planning for cold chain. The example of Dalian Port and Yingkou Port offer insight into trade-offs between transportation temperature and transport mode considering CO2 footprint. Furthermore, the model can offer a useful reference for other regions with the demand for different imported food, which requires an uninterrupted cold chain during the transportation and storage.</abstract>

This model optimizes port hinterland intermodal refrigerated container flows, considering both cost and quality degradation, which is distinctive from the previous literature content in a way that it quantifies the influence of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission in different setting temperature on intermodal network planning. The primary contribution of this paper is that the model is beneficial not only to shippers and customers for the novel service design, but also offer, for policy-makers of the government, insights to develop inland transport infrastructures in consideration of intermodal transportation. The majority of models of multimodal system have been established with an objective of cost minimization for normal commodities. As the food quality is possible to be influenced by varying duration time required for the storage and transportation, and transportation accompanied with refrigeration producing more CO2 emission, this paper aims to address cost minimization and quality degradation minimization within the constraint of CO2 footprint. To achieve this aim, we put the quality degradation model in a mixed-integer linear programming model used for intermodal network planning for cold chain. The example of Dalian Port and Yingkou Port offer insight into trade-offs between transportation temperature and transport mode considering CO2 footprint. Furthermore, the model can offer a useful reference for other regions with the demand for different imported food, which requires an uninterrupted cold chain during the transportation and storage.

An Optimization Approach to the Intermodal Transportation Network in Fruit Cold Chain, Considering Cost, Quality Degradation and Carbon Dioxide Footprint

Polish Maritime Research

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This model optimizes port hinterland intermodal refrigerated container flows, considering both cost and quality degradation, which is distinctive from the...

An Optimization Approach to the Intermodal Transportation Network in Fruit Cold Chain, Considering Cost, Quality Degradation and Carbon Dioxide Footprint

Published Online: Apr 11, 2018

Page range: 61 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2018-0007

Keywords
intermodal transport network, quality model, refrigerated container, fruit cold chain, integer linear programming

© 2018 Qianli Ma et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

An Optimization Approach to the Intermodal Transportation Network in Fruit Cold Chain, Considering Cost, Quality Degradation and Carbon Dioxide Footprint

Published Online: Apr 11, 2018

Page range: 61 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2018-0007

Keywordsintermodal transport network, quality model, refrigerated container, fruit cold chain, integer linear programming

© 2018 Qianli Ma et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
intermodal transport network, quality model, refrigerated container, fruit cold chain, integer linear programming