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To enhance the on-time transportation of time-sensitive goods, hard time windows are employed to regulate both pickup and delivery services at the start and end of their transportation. The uncertainty of both the demand for time-sensitive goods and the capacity of the transportation network are modeled using L-R triangular fuzzy numbers in the routing process to make the advanced routing more feasible in the actual transportation. Based on the carbon tax policy, a fuzzy linear optimization model is established to address the proposed problem, and an equivalent chance-constrained programming formulation is then obtained to make the solution to the problem attainable. A numerical experiment is carried out to verify the feasibility of incorporating the carbon tax policy, uncertainty, and water\u2013rail\u2013road multimodal transportation to optimize the low-carbon freight routing problem for time-sensitive goods. Furthermore, a multi-objective optimization is used to reveal that lowering the transportation costs, reducing the carbon emissions, and avoiding the risk are in conflict with each in the routing. We also analyze the sensitivity of the optimization results concerning the confidence level of the chance constraints and the uncertainty degree of the uncertain demand and capacity. Based on the numerical experiment, we draw several conclusions to help the shipper, receiver, and multimodal transportation operator to organize efficient water\u2013rail\u2013road multimodal transportation for time-sensitive goods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems12110468","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,1]],"date-time":"2024-11-01T15:53:43Z","timestamp":1730476423000},"page":"468","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Low-Carbon Water\u2013Rail\u2013Road Multimodal Routing Problem with Hard Time Windows for Time-Sensitive Goods Under Uncertainty: A Chance-Constrained Programming Approach"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4704-5578","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yan","family":"Sun","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan 250014, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3685-4991","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yan","family":"Ge","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan 250014, China"}]},{"given":"Min","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shandong Zhonghe Carbon Emission Service Center Co., Ltd., Jinan 250013, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4057-4124","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chen","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Media and Design, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 102488, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Two-phase container slot allocation for time-sensitive cargo","volume":"27","author":"Wang","year":"2018","journal-title":"Oper. 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