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The purpose of this paper is to minimize the carbon emission and distribution cost, which includes vehicle operation cost, product freshness cost, quality loss cost, penalty cost and transportation cost.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study proposed a mathematical optimization model, considering the distribution cost and carbon emission. The improved Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II algorithm was used to solve the model to obtain the Pareto frontal solution set.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The result of this study showed that this model can more accurately assess distribution costs and carbon emissions than those do not take real-time traffic conditions in the actual road network into account and provided guidance for cold chain logistics companies to choose a distribution strategy and for the government to develop a carbon tax.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>There are some limitations in the proposed model. This study assumes that there are only one distribution and a single type of vehicle.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>Existing research on low-carbon VRP for cold chain logistics ignores the complexity of the road network and the time-varying traffic conditions, resulting in nonmeaningful planned distribution routes and furthermore low carbon cannot be discussed. 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