Profit allocation in collaborative less-than-truckload carrier alliance

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, ICAL 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 258-263

  Xu, Na ^a   Yu, Chengxin ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Liu, Peng ^b  

^a SHANDONG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Collaborative transportation; Cooperative game; Profit allocation

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION METHODS; CARRIER ALLIANCE; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; COOPERATIVE GAME; COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY; FINANCIAL CRISIS; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; LESS-THAN-TRUCKLOAD; PROFIT ALLOCATION; PROPORTIONAL ALLOCATION; SHAPLEY VALUE;

EARNINGS; PROFITABILITY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70450168911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAL.2009.5262918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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