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Transportation is a major cause of energy consumption and emissions which can bereduced by optimizing routings and using alternative modes of transport. This paperrelates to the strategic design of multimodal transportation networks. It presents ageneral model of green vehicle routing problems that supports strategic decisionmakingby identifying optimal solutions and provides data on costs and emissions.Three general linear programming models were developed that optimize multimodaldistribution networks that could be applied in many industries. Model I evaluatescarbon emissions; model II assesses carbon emissions and capacity constraints; andmodel III establishes total costs including transportation, handling, storage, fuel andcarbon costs.Thailand is the third largest world sugar exporter in the world and is piloting carbonpricing, which will affect energy intensive industries, including the sugar industry. Themodels are applied using data obtained from a collaborating company. The researchcontributed to practice by informing managerial decisions relating to the export of sugarfrom the factory. This included evaluating the possible use of a dry port with railconnections, which could reduce transportation and carbon costs by 54.3% andfacilitate the building of another factory to increase exports.
Author(s): Pongcharoen P, Thanatporn S, Hicks C
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Energy
Year: 2024
Volume: 298
Print publication date: 01/07/2024
Online publication date: 12/04/2024
Acceptance date: 09/04/2024
Date deposited: 09/04/2024
ISSN (print): 0360-5442
ISSN (electronic): 1873-6785
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.131273
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131273
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/gbht-nw34
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