This paper presents an ‘ex ante’ decision support tool to evaluate the economic and ecologic impacts of shippers’ horizontal collaboration in urban freight delivery. | Assessing the economic and environmental benefits of horizontal cooperation in delivery Performance and scenario analysis Uncertain Supply Chain Management 8 2020 303 320 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Uncertain Supply Chain Management homepage uscm Assessing the economic and environmental benefits of horizontal cooperation in delivery Performance and scenario analysis Hanan Ouhadera and Malika El kyala a National School of Applied Sciences-Ibn zohr university Morocco CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history The growing environmental and economic concerns oblige logistics operations managers to Received August 25 2019 look for simple solutions to optimize their processes and to corporate sustainability in logistics Received in revised format networks. Logistics collaboration is one of the management practices to foster the November 20 2019 sustainability of freight transport. This paper presents an ex ante decision support tool to Accepted November 29 2019 Available online evaluate the economic and ecologic impacts of shippers horizontal collaboration in urban December 8 2019 freight delivery. Optimization model as a two-echelon location routing problem 2E-LRP is Keywords exploited to demonstrate the benefits of joining facility location and vehicle routing decisions Horizontal collaboration under multi-objective optimization approach. Numerical instances reproducing the real urban Sustainable urban road network are regenerated to test the proposed mechanism. Scenario analysis is conducted to transport analyze and discuss the effect of parameters changes in generated gains. Network design Two-echelon Location Routing problem Multi-objective optimization Scenario analysis 2020 by the authors license Growing Science Canada. 1. Introduction The transport sector contributes to 14 of global greenhouse gas emissions1. Global Sustainable Transport Conference 2016 stated that without undertaking the transport sector the world will not be able
