BAHADORI, Ramin, SAAD, Sameh, BADAKHSHAN, Ehsan, PERERA, Terrence and GUNATHILAKA, Ranjika (2023). A new eco-friendly initiative for last food mile delivery in urban areas. In: BRUZZONE, Agostino G., JANOSY, Janos Sebestyen, NICOLETTI, Letizia and ZACHAREWICZ, Gregory, (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Simulation for Energy, Sustainable Development & Environment (SESDE 2023). CAL-TEK srl. [Book Section]
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Abstract
The last food mile delivery involves the final step of delivering food products to the end customers. By developing e-commerce
channels, home delivery is considered the final mile of food delivery. However, although home food delivery has received much
welcome from consumers, it is still one of the costliest and most polluting segments in the food supply chain, and its optimisation
is highly felt. Thus, this paper proposes a new initiative to reduce the environmental impacts of home food deliveries from
retailers in urban areas. Last food mile models for both the conventional approach in which each retailer has its own dark store
and for a proposed approach in which all retailers have only one common dark store for home food delivery are developed. A
Vehicle Route Problem with Time Window (VRPTW) and heterogeneous fleet are developed to minimise both CO2 emission and
transportation cost simultaneously and implemented using a simulated annealing algorithm that is programmed in MATLAB
software. The obtained results revealed that the proposed initiative's application can significantly impact the reduction of both
CO2 emission and transportation costs.
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