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Horizontal cooperation among truck carriers is the framework considered in the present paper. More specifically, the goal of this paper is to properly distribute the profits related to a set of carriers collaborating together for merging multiple trips. First, a mathematical model is set to maximize the total profit of the coalition of carriers. The solution of the resulting optimization problem provides...
At present, China's express market demands and supply capacity of the express service providers is increasingly prominent. In the view of the problems such as scattered, small, bad in the express industry in China, the collaborative mode of service network based on horizontal resource integration is proposed. Through the cooperative operation of the express enterprise service network, it is not only...
The success of emergency supplies response often needs collaborative cooperation between related emergency departments. Because of its functions on emergency supplies response, the response process can be high efficiency. This paper mainly illustrates the processes of collaborative allocation of emergency supplies under power grid emergency. It is a research on finding out the failure factors which...
Much research in the operations research (OR) community has focused on commercial logistics or supply chain management, but there is another kind of logistics problem, dealing with emergency response, that has not as yet received much attention. In this paper, we present a literature review of emergency logistics in the context of large-scale disasters. First, we identify key characteristics of large-scale...
With the fast development of globalization of containerized liner shipping, and the period of large-scale vessels in the international shipping market, the joint service and synergy management for the containerized liner shipping have become important. This paper applies the synergy theory to joint-service system of containerized liner shipping, which may enrich the researching means for joint service...
Container terminal handling operation is the main task of terminal service. The handling time and the operation efficiency at container terminals are the service quality evaluation standard in the resource limit. This paper based on the discreteness and dynamic characteristic of Container Terminal Logistics Operation System (CTLOS), establishes the architecture of CTLOS with the multi-agents technology,...
In the ages of economic globalization, networking and information, collaborative logistics network is running in a geographically distributed, heterogeneous environment. The application of Grid technology in logistics resource sharing and business collaboration is present. Logistics Resource Sharing Grid (LRSG) is an advanced solution for the bottleneck of networked logistics. In this paper, a Service-oriented...
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