Profit allocation mechanisms for carrier collaboration in pickup and delivery service

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 633-643

  Dai, Bo ^a,b   Chen, Haoxun ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

Carrier collaboration; Collaborative logistics; Cooperative game; Profit allocation mechanism

Indexed keywords

BACK HAUL; CARRIER COLLABORATION; COLLABORATION FRAMEWORK; COOPERATIVE GAME; FAIR ALLOCATION; MULTIPLE CARRIERS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SERVICE; PROFIT ALLOCATION; PROPORTIONAL ALLOCATION; SHAPLEY VALUE; VEHICLE CAPACITY; VEHICLE UTILIZATION;

GAME THEORY; PICKUPS;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 84855794200     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2011.11.029     Document Type: Article

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