TY - JOUR
T1 - Freight consolidation through carrier collaboration
T2 - A cooperative game
AU - Mercurio, Fabio
AU - Schlicher, Loe
AU - Rohmer, Sonja U.K.
AU - van Woensel, Tom
PY - 2024/9
Y1 - 2024/9
N2 - Reducing inefficient truck movements, this research investigates the potential of freight consolidation through carrier collaboration. Considering the financial benefits of consolidation as well as the additional cost arising from collaboration, we introduce a cooperative game in which several carriers can collaborate by pooling transportation capacities. Although the core of this game can be empty, we provide three conditions under which core non-emptiness is preserved. Numerical experiments indicate, moreover, that core non-emptiness is also likely outside these conditions.
AB - Reducing inefficient truck movements, this research investigates the potential of freight consolidation through carrier collaboration. Considering the financial benefits of consolidation as well as the additional cost arising from collaboration, we introduce a cooperative game in which several carriers can collaborate by pooling transportation capacities. Although the core of this game can be empty, we provide three conditions under which core non-emptiness is preserved. Numerical experiments indicate, moreover, that core non-emptiness is also likely outside these conditions.
KW - Capacity sharing
KW - Cooperative game theory
KW - Freight consolidation
KW - Stable allocations
KW - Transportation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85200644609&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.orl.2024.107142
DO - 10.1016/j.orl.2024.107142
M3 - Article
SN - 0167-6377
VL - 56
JO - Operations Research Letters
JF - Operations Research Letters
M1 - 107142
ER -