A survey of multi-criteria decision-making techniques for green logistics and low-carbon transportation systems

With the increasing severity of environmental problems, low-carbon development has become an inevitable choice. Nowadays, low-carbon green sustainable development is influenced by a variety of factors such as social, environmental, technological, and economic development levels, making its development complex, which in turn imposes challenges on decision-makers. In this context, the application of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) in different areas of sustainable development engineering has become a hot topic. Although many reviews of MCDM techniques already exist, there is a lack of holistic review efforts on MCDM in the field of low-carbon transport and green logistics. Considering these shortcomings in the state of the art, this paper systematically reviews more than 190 papers from 2010 to 2022, constructs a general structure of MCDM techniques for this research topic, provides a comprehensive review and analysis of it, and clarifies the current practices. Furthermore, future directions for the development of MCDM techniques for green logistics and low-carbon transportation systems are presented as well.

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With the growing severity of environmental problems, low-carbon development has become an inevitable choice. The complexity of low-carbon green sustainable development, influenced by various factors, poses challenges for decision-makers. This paper provides a systematic review and analysis of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques in the field of low-carbon transport and green logistics, filling the gap in existing literature. Future directions for MCDM techniques in these areas are also presented.