A General Transfer Station Location Model in Relay Delivery Considering Carbon Footprint

Due to climate warming, governments around the world is developing a serial of measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On the basis of the transfer station location model of relay delivery, this paper takes carbon footprint into account of the location model. Respectively, strict carbon caps, carbon cap and trade, carbon tax and combination of carbon cap and trade with the carbon tax, the four kinds of carbon reduction mix strategies are integrated into the transfer station location model. The proposed model are validated by instance. Comparison of cost of relay distribution and carbon footprint under the four strategies are described.