<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Utilizing rail transit system for collaborative passenger-and-freight transport is a sustainable option to conquer urban congestion. This study proposes effective modeling and optimization techniques planning city-wide metro-based underground logistics (M-ULS) network. Firstly, novel metro prototype integrating retrofitted stations newly-built capsule pipeline...

This paper critically reviews research conducted from 1999-2013 on Green Logistics Network Design (GrLND). Basic features like decision variables, network structure, type of optimization techniques preferred, components of objective functions considered across various industries to improve their environmental performance has been identified. Finally, potential gaps for future studies are highli...

With the rapid development of e-commerce, online transactions are becoming more and more popular, which causes the flourish of logistics industry in turn. But the high rate of returning has become a great challenge to companies, thus leaving floor to considerations of the effects of reverse logistics. Starting from the connotation and characteristics of the reverse logistics in e-commerce, the ...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a systematic literature review on the subject of sustainable supply chain network design during 1990-2016, through a review of 261 papers. In this study, qualitative technique for conducting a systematic literature review was used. To systematize and make the literature review more accurate, content analysis method was used that include data collect...