Abstract

Green Transport is an organisational approach to minimising waste and improving the ecology of supply chains. This vision contributes to better sustainability of chains and a harmonised consideration of ethical and environmental considerations with standard economic prerogatives. The integration of the multiple facets of the Balanced Scorecard performance allows for a multidimensional and holistic analysis of the parameters of green transport. This study aims to develop a Green Transport approach to evaluate and compare possible alternatives by combining Fuzzy and VIKOR approaches. The basic idea of this work is the combination of a fuzzy method integrated with VIKOR by the principles of the Balanced Scorecard. The aim is to integrate a categorization of the facets of sustainability with respective sub-criteria and weightings while contextualizing our study with current and empirical data. The study focused on Green Transport alternatives and the optimal choice between these alternatives in a multi-criteria optimisation framework for a drug distribution company. The study revealed that the electric bicycle as a green mode of transport allows an improvement of the efficiency of the supply chain and respects the chosen weighting of the criteria of the Balanced scorecard. Fuzzy weighting of the indicators and the selection of alternatives by the VIKOR method seem to be two complementary methods for a multi-criteria optimisation of green transport.

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