Title: Quantification of social cost at product price-level for urban freight: a study of industrial products

Authors: Chitresh Kumar; Anirban Ganguly

Addresses: Jindal Global Business School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat Narela Road, Sonipat 131001, Haryana, India ' Jindal Global Business School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat Narela Road, Sonipat 131001, Haryana, India

Abstract: The urban area largely relies on the movement of goods and services. Additionally, pollution and congestions, the two negative externalities of urban freight movement, has led to a plethora of restrictions and regulations from operational and supply chain perspective. The paper tries to develop a bi-level programming model to analyse the social cost of pollution and congestion due to freight movement within urban areas of India at the product unit price-level. The model was based on government's toll and time-windows based regulation for vehicular entry restrictions within the urban areas for pollution. The model was iterated for various buyer-supplier for various buyer-supplier scenarios and for different service levels for backorders and deliveries during restricted time windows. It was observed that for various levels of service, profit differential varied between (−1.7%) to 2.8% of the product unit price and seemed to be significant enough for supply chain policy consideration.

Keywords: urban freight; urban freight regulations; time-windows; steel company; supply chain policy; bi-level programming; business performance; India; pollution; congestion.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBPSCM.2019.105718

International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling, 2019 Vol.10 No.4, pp.369 - 385

Received: 28 Nov 2018
Accepted: 09 Nov 2019
Published online: 09 Mar 2020 *

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