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Project: Designing, Assessing, and
Modeling of a Sustainable Networked Delivery (SND) System: Hybrid
Business-to-Consumer Book Delivery System Summary: In this project, we propose to design,
assess, and simulate an example of a sustainable networked delivery (SND)
system: a hybrid business-to-consumer book delivery system. This system is
intended to reduce costs, achieve significant reductions in energy
consumption, and reduce environmental emissions of critical local pollutants
and greenhouse gases. The SND system is a combination of e-commerce and
centralized pickup point (PP), with the PP being a location that the consumer
will already be visiting regularly. More specifically, this research is
intended to serve three purposes: (a) design a SND system for the e-commerce
book market; (b) to contribute to the development of sustainability network
theory (SNT) by developing an economic, energy and environmental network flow
model for three networked delivery systems (a traditional networked delivery
(TND) system, an e-commerce networked delivery (END) system, and our sustainable
networked delivery (SND) system); (c) to simulate, test, and validate the
energy savings and carbon reduction potential for each delivery option
through agent-based modeling. Our research will determine whether the SND
system has the potential to save local transportation energy consumption and
reduce environmental emissions and costs in an important e-commerce market
and, more generally, determine whether SNT is a useful methodology for
implement of economic, environmental, and social performance. Publications: Designing and Assessing Sustainable Networked Delivery (SND) Systems:
Hybrid Business-to-Consumer Book Delivery Case Study, J. Kim, M. Xu, R. Kahhat, B. Allenby and E. Williams, Environmental
Science and Technology, Submitted for publication. Environmental
Impacts of the Market Dynamics in Urban E-commerce System, M. Xu, J. Kim, R. Kahhat, B. Allenby and E. Williams, Journal
of Industrial Ecology, Submitted for publication. Design and
Assessment of a Sustainable Networked Book Delivery System in the United
States, J. Kim, M. Xu, R. Kahhat, B. Allenby and E. Williams, to appear in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE
International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, Energy and
Environmental Flow Model for a Sustainable Networked Book Delivery System in
the United States, J. Kim, M. Xu, R. Kahhat, B. Allenby and E. Williams, to appear in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE
International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, San Francisco, CA
(2008) A Framework of Sustainability
Network Theory (SNT) and Model for Industrial System, J. Kim and B. Allenby, The International Society for Industrial Ecology
2007 Conference, Toronto, Canada, p282. Energy
implications of online book retailing in the Information
Technology Impacts on the Creating
economic, social and environmental value: An information infrastructure
perspective, B. Allenby, Int. J Environ Tech Manag. 2007, 7(5/6),
618-631. Contact: For more information and/or copies of
publications, please contact: Junbeum Kim |
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