Proceedings of ICLT 2013
A sustainable Logistics network framework development
Kamol Tharuarak; Shahyahan Khan; Vuttichai Chatpattananan
School of Agricultural, Computational, and Environmental Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Australia; Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology, Thailand; School of Agricultural, Computational, and Environmental Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
International Conference on Logistics & Transport 2013, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 43-49
Paper overview
Currently a conceptual framework of sustainable logistics network considering both economic and environmental performances is an important research topic. Increased awareness of environmental issues (Ortolani et al. 2009) acknowledged by enterprises has resulted in sustainable logistics planning. In general the economic costs directly incur debt while the environmental costs have been considerably ignored. Notwithstanding this, a lot of environmental problems have impacted on human health. These reasons make many governments and academics concerned about environmental logistics planning optimization, which accounts for the trade-off between the economic costs and the environmental impacts. A conceptual framework of sustainable logistics planning typically depends on the current logistics practices in long term objectives. The distribution of commodities in a logistics system generates C02 which makes a lot of environmental impacts on the ecosystem. It is difficult to get rid of these factors but these factors can be minimized by the optimization mode based on a conceptual framework. The fundamental idea behind this conceptual framework is to incorporate the economic and environmental issues in the optimization model. In order to address the mentioned problems, this paper attempts to present a conceptual framework for the environmental logistics network.
Keywords
logistics; transport; supply chain
Citation
Kamol Tharuarak; Shahyahan Khan; Vuttichai Chatpattananan (2013). A sustainable Logistics network framework development. Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics & Transport (ICLT 2013), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 43-49.