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Towards A More Sustainable Future? Simulating the Environmental Impact of Online and Offline Grocery Supply Chains

Maik Trott,C. Viebahn,M. Landwehr

Published 2020 in Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications

ABSTRACT

The negative effects of traffic, such as air quality problems and road congestion, put a strain on the infrastructure of cities and high-populated areas. A potential measure to reduce these negative effects are grocery home deliveries (e-grocery), which can bundle driving activities and, hence, result in decreased traffic and related emission outputs. Several studies have investigated the potential impact of e-grocery on traffic in various last-mile contexts. However, no holistic view on the sustainability of e-grocery across the entire supply chain has yet been proposed. Therefore, this paper presents an agent-based simulation to assess the impact of the e-grocery supply chain compared to the stationary one in terms of mileage and different emission outputs. The simulation shows that a high e-grocery utilization rate can aid in decreasing total driving distances by up to 255 % relative to the optimal value as well as CO2 emissions by up to 50 %.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2020

  • Venue

    Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications

  • Publication date

    2020-12-14

  • Fields of study

    Business, Environmental Science, Computer Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1109/WSC48552.2020.9383987
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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