Designing mechanisms for the management of carrier alliances

Transportation Science

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 465-482

  Houghtalen, Lori ^a   Ergun, Özlem ^a   Sokol, Joel ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset allocation; Carrier alliances; Decentralized coordination

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENTS;

ASSET ALLOCATION; CARRIER ALLIANCE; CONTROL PARAMETERS; DECENTRALIZED COORDINATION; PROFIT ALLOCATION; ROUTING DECISIONS; SELECTION DECISIONS; SHARING NETWORK;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 81555209061     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1100.0358     Document Type: Article

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