An Environmentally Conscious Multi-Objective Weber Problem for Green Location and Distribution Planning: A Fuzzy Weighted Additive Approach

In this study, a multi-objective Weber (p-median) problem is treated in order to determine the location of the warehouses to be opened and the distribution plans of products. The company carries out the distribution with three types of vehicles differing in unit transportation cost, carbon emission and velocity. Three conflicting objectives are aimed to be minimized, i.e.; the demand weighted total transportation cost, the total delivery time and the total carbon. We adopted a fuzzy weighted additive approach to deal with the multi-objective optimization function, in which the weights of each individual objective function are determined by Analytic Hierarchy Process.

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