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A Game Theoretical Approach for Improving the Operational Efficiencies of Less-than-truckload Carriers Through Load Exchanges
Networks and Spatial Economics ( IF 2.4 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-20 , DOI: 10.1007/s11067-021-09536-7
Baṣak Altan , Okan Örsan Özener

Less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation offers fast, flexible and relatively low-cost transportation services to shippers. In order to cope with the effects of economic recessions, the LTL industry implemented ideas such as reducing excess capacity and increasing revenues through better yield management. In this paper, we extend these initiatives beyond the reach of individual carriers and propose a collaborative framework that facilitates load exchanges to reduce the operational costs. Even though collective solutions are proven to provide benefits to the participants by reducing the inefficiencies using a system-wide perspective, such solutions are often not attainable in real-life as the negotiating parties are seeking to maximize their individual profits rather than the overall profit and also they are unwilling to share confidential information. Therefore, a mechanism that enables collaboration among the carriers should account for the rationality of the individual participants and should require minimal information transfer between participants. Having this in mind, we propose a mechanism that facilities collaboration through a series of load exchange iterations and identifies an equilibrium among selfish carriers with limited information transfer among the participants. Our time-efficient mechanism can handle large instances with thousands of loads as well as provide significant benefits over the non-collaborative management of LTL networks.



中文翻译:

通过负载交换提高零担运输机运营效率的博弈论方法

零担 (LTL) 运输为托运人提供快速、灵活且成本相对较低的运输服务。为了应对经济衰退的影响,零担运输行业实施了通过更好的收益管理减少过剩产能和增加收入等想法。在本文中,我们将这些举措扩展到单个运营商的范围之外,并提出了一个协作框架,以促进负载交换以降低运营成本。尽管集体解决方案被证明可以通过使用全系统的视角来减少低效率,从而为参与者带来好处,这种解决方案在现实生活中往往无法实现,因为谈判各方正在寻求最大化他们的个人利润而不是整体利润,而且他们也不愿意分享机密信息。因此,实现运营商之间协作的机制应该考虑到个体参与者的合理性,并且应该要求参与者之间的信息传递最少。考虑到这一点,我们提出了一种机制,通过一系列负载交换迭代促进协作,并确定自私载体之间的平衡,参与者之间的信息传输有限。我们的省时机制可以处理具有数千个负载的大型实例,并且与 LTL 网络的非协作管理相比具有显着的优势。实现运营商之间协作的机制应考虑到个体参与者的合理性,并应尽量减少参与者之间的信息传递。考虑到这一点,我们提出了一种机制,通过一系列负载交换迭代促进协作,并确定自私载体之间的平衡,参与者之间的信息传输有限。我们省时的机制可以处理具有数千个负载的大型实例,并且比LTL网络的非协作管理具有明显的优势。实现运营商之间协作的机制应考虑到个体参与者的合理性,并应尽量减少参与者之间的信息传递。考虑到这一点,我们提出了一种机制,通过一系列负载交换迭代促进协作,并确定自私载体之间的平衡,参与者之间的信息传输有限。我们的省时机制可以处理具有数千个负载的大型实例,并且与 LTL 网络的非协作管理相比具有显着的优势。我们提出了一种机制,通过一系列负载交换迭代来促进协作,并确定自私载体之间的平衡,参与者之间的信息传输有限。我们的省时机制可以处理具有数千个负载的大型实例,并且与 LTL 网络的非协作管理相比具有显着的优势。我们提出了一种机制,通过一系列负载交换迭代来促进协作,并确定自私载体之间的平衡,参与者之间的信息传输有限。我们的省时机制可以处理具有数千个负载的大型实例,并且与 LTL 网络的非协作管理相比具有显着的优势。

更新日期:2021-05-20
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