A new model for assessing the impact of the urban intelligent transportation system, farmers’ knowledge and business processes on the success of green supply chain management system for urban distribution of agricultural products

Abstract Today, in urban planning, the role of an efficient Supply Chain Management (SCM) system is very important. Also, Green SCN (GSCM) because of its inherent capabilities such as faster delivery of goods and services, reduced latency, increased quality, value-added for customers to supply clean products and improve the organization's economic performance becomes very popular. Recently, GSCM has become one of the most important approaches in supply chain. Supply chain and urban managers through the logistic process try to get benefit from GSCM and improve their environmental performance as a valuable resource. The results of these measures save and eliminate excess energy and reduce operational points that are consistent with the green supply chain. The green supply chain also helps to distribute crops using urban ITS. This research presents a model for assessing the impact of urban ITS, farmers' knowledge and business processes on the success of GSCM systems for urban distribution of an agricultural product. The structural equation modeling method is employed to assess the causal model and to verify its validity and reliability. Also, the evaluation of the consistency and validity of the model is done through a structural equation model. The model and data based on the questionnaire are analyzed using Smart PLS 3.0. The collected results have shown that all the considered factors, urban intelligent transportation system, farmers' knowledge, and business processes play an important role in the success of GSCM for urban distribution of the agricultural product.