A Green Transportation Problem for e-Commerce Deliveries

Théo Le Brun, Théo Le Brun, Marie-José Huguet, Sandra Ngueveu, Romulus Grigoras

2025

Abstract

To get involved in the fight against climate change, e-commerce actors should reduce the environmental impact of their activities. For retailers, a key challenge to is identify the stock sources for fulfilling online orders. In this paper, our goal is to orchestrate orders while minimizing the associated environmental impact. We propose a model of Green Transportation Problem for E-commerce Deliveries (GTP-ED) which can be seen as a general case of Fixed Charge Transportation Problem. We detail how we obtain the environmental objective function and how we generate instances based on real world and realistic data and that good quality solutions can be obtained quickly. Then, we show the relevance of our environmental objective function by comparing the results with an orchestration based on minimizing the distance traveled by the parcels, which leads to a 30% increase of environmental cost. Finally, we compare the GTP-ED with an economic approach and outline a significant tension between our environmental and economic objectives in that context.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Le Brun T., Huguet M., Ngueveu S. and Grigoras R. (2025). A Green Transportation Problem for e-Commerce Deliveries. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES; ISBN 978-989-758-732-0, SciTePress, pages 278-285. DOI: 10.5220/0013162900003893

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores25,
author={Théo Le Brun and Marie-José Huguet and Sandra Ngueveu and Romulus Grigoras},
title={A Green Transportation Problem for e-Commerce Deliveries},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES},
year={2025},
pages={278-285},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013162900003893},
isbn={978-989-758-732-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES
TI - A Green Transportation Problem for e-Commerce Deliveries
SN - 978-989-758-732-0
AU - Le Brun T.
AU - Huguet M.
AU - Ngueveu S.
AU - Grigoras R.
PY - 2025
SP - 278
EP - 285
DO - 10.5220/0013162900003893
PB - SciTePress