Dear Colleagues,

We invite authors to submit their original papers to this Special Issue, which aims to establish an overview of research activity on the “Optimization of Sustainable Transport and Logistics Processes” in an industrial and social context dominated by both digitalization—which has advantages and drawbacks for humans and the environment (such as higher energy consumption)—and environmental transition, which involves tougher legislative constraints on fossil fuels and incentives to use renewable energies, and to sort and recycle used products and packaging. These contexts have enriched and complicated many classical scientific optimization problems that are widely addressed in logistics and transport. These problems range from the strategic level, such as the design and optimization of supply chains (including reverse logistics), to tactical and operational levels, such as routing problems including, for example, the use of electric vehicles. The sustainable optimization of logistics and transport systems and activities aims to reduce their costs while limiting their environmental impact (for example, the depletion of natural resources, CO2 emissions and energy consumption peaks) and considering social aspects (for example, avoiding the degradation of employability and working conditions for humans). 

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. We are interested in recent research advances in improving the sustainability of transport and logistics activities, ranging from the supply of raw materials to the transformation processes, storage, packaging, distribution and management of products at the end of their lifecycle. Contributions may include (but are not limited to):

- The formalization of new trends and challenges in logistics and transport, involving one or several sustainability dimensions.

- The definition of new optimization indicators, criteria and metrics for sustainability assessment and optimization.

- Modeling, optimisation methods (operations research, simulation and artificial intelligence), decision support methods in a multi-objective context, or sustainability practices (collaboration, mutualization, intermodality/multimodality, etc.).

Prof. Dr. Marie-Ange Manier
Dr. Hervé Manier
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• sustainability
• optimization
• supply chain
• logistics
• transport
• sustainability indicators
• model
• optimization methods and algorithms
• multi-objective decision support