Published In

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2006

Subjects

Shipment of goods -- Costs, Business logistics -- Mathematical models, Vehicle routing problem, Freight transportation

Abstract

The principal purpose of this research is to quantify opportunity costs in sequential transportation auctions. The focus of the study is a transportation marketplace with time-sensitive truckload pickup-and-delivery requests. Two carriers compete for service requests; each arriving service request triggers an auction in which carriers compete with each other to win the right of servicing the load. An expression for evaluating opportunity costs is derived. The impact of evaluating opportunity costs is shown to be dependent on the competitive market setting. A simulation framework is used to evaluate different strategies. Some results and the overall simulation framework are also discussed.

Rights

Copyright, National Academy of Sciences. Posted with permission of the Transportation Research Board. None of this material may be presented to imply endorsement by TRB of a product, method, practice, or policy.

DOI

10.3141/1964-27

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20819

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