Optimization of Empty Pallet Low-Carbon Dispatching Based on Intermodal Freight Transport

With the wide spread of pallets in the containerized transport, because of low efficiency, high cost, high resource consumption and other shortcomings, the disposable pallets can’t adapt to the future development of containerized transport. Pallet pool can realize the recycling of the pallet, improves the handing and transport efficiency while reducing the cost and consumption of resources. But, as the cargo volume in different areas varies, and certain goods are seasonal transport, which make the pallets in the pallet pool mode unbalanced. The paper mainly focuses on the railway transport and highway transport to analyze the empty pallet dispatching. Based on the carbon emissions, transport time and priority of dispatching, the paper establishes the objective model of minimum cost, in order to make the decision of empty pallet dispatching routes and modes of transport. And this paper uses the ILOG Cplex software to solve the mode land verify the feasibility and superiority of the model through a case.