Intermodal transportation within the green supply chain: An approach based on the ELECTRE method

The management of green supply chain takes into account the environmental impacts of the processes of supply chain. Considering the great environmental awakenings at the planetary level and the discounted growth of the carriage of goods per mode within the European Union, the distribution and haulage companies must start to take measures to limit their impacts. The goal of this paper is to model the performance of an intermodal transport system of goods within the green supply chain, taking into account the economic, environmental and social criteria in order to help decision makers choose the best route in an intermodal system among several alternatives. Then we have to trade with many conflicting criteria, it´s appropriate to use multi-criteria decision support system to find the best compromised solution. The route selection in a multimodal transportation network is therefore a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. In this paper we use an approach based on the method ELECTRE (Elimination and Choice Expressing the Reality) to solve this problem.