Allocating Collaborative Profit in Less-than-Truckload Carrier Alliance

Allocating Collaborative Profit in Less-than-Truckload Carrier Alliance

International Financial Crisis has made the less-than-truckload (LTL) industry face with severe challenges of survival and development. More and more small and medium-sized LTL carriers choose to collaborate as the potential savings are large, often in the range 5–15%. A key question is how to distribute profits/savings among the participants. Since every LTL carriers are guided by their own se...

Modeling of Collaborative Less-than-truckload Carrier Freight Networks

Centralized Time-Dependent Multiple-Carrier Collaboration Problem for Less-Than-Truckload Carriers

cooperative alliances also arises from the need to address emerging concerns, such as the increase in shipper requirements and the role of the Internet and ICT in enhancing competition. Thus, a key operational challenge for carrier–carrier collaborative networks is to address these issues within a cooperative alliance and create win–win situations for all members in the alliance. LTL carrier co...

Centralized Carrier Collaboration Multihub Location Problem for Less-Than-Truckload Industry Hybrid Hub-and-Spoke Network

of profitability, spatially spread demand, and intense competition have incited a trend to seek solutions through ICT and the Internet (3). One manifestation of this is an increase in collaboration among small to medium-sized LTL carriers. That is, small to medium-sized carriers have begun to develop strategies that exploit synergies (such as excess capacity, overlapping lanes, and facilities),...

Less-than-truckload Dynamic Pricing Model in Physical Internet

Abstract: This paper investigates a decision-making problem consisting of less-than-truckload dynamic pricing (LTLDP) under Physical Internet (PI). PI can be seen as the interconnection of logistics networks via open PI-hubs, which can be considered as spot freight markets where LTL requests of different volume/destination continuously arrive over time for a short-stay. Carriers can bid for the...