Modeling carrier collaboration in freight networks

Transportation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-61

  Voruganti, Avinash ^a   Unnikrishnan, Avinash ^b   Waller, S Travis ^c  

^a Credit Policy and Risk Analyst   (United States)

^b West Virginia University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliance formation; Collaboration; Freight networks; Shapely value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883354697     PISSN: 19427867     EISSN: 19427875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3328/TL.2011.03.01.51-61     Document Type: Article

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