Collaboration in Cargo Transportation

Agarwal, Richa; Ergün, Özlem; Houghtalen, Lori; Özener, Okan Örsan

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-88617-6_14

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“…Collaboration is an upcoming topic considered as a key element of transport and logistics efficiency (Healey 1998;Walter, Scholz 2007;Agarwal et al 2009). However, the notion of collaboration is not seen as a unambiguous term in transport research and it is mainly associated to freight transport (Bloos, Kopfer 2011;Graham 2011; Gonzalez-Feliu, Salanova 2012); nevertheless, collaboration starts to be developed and studied at both research and practice level (DeMaio 2009) in personal mobility, sharing economy and pooling systems (that are, effectively, forms of collaboration).…”

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“…By bundling their shipment requests, the shippers can negotiate better shipment rates with a common carrier, because it can perform fewer repositionings of its trucks (Agarwal et al . ; Ergun et al ). Alternatively, logistics service providers (LSP) might combine parts of their networks (Schmoltzi & Wallenburg ), which should increase the company's productivity in core activities by decreasing empty mileage and the average distance between customers (Van Donselaar et al .…”

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Co‐Location Synergies: Specialised Versus Diverse Logistics Concentration Areas

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Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Although anecdotal evidence suggests that co-location can bring about several benefits for colocated logistics companies, implying the need to incorporate such considerations in location decisions, these benefits have hardly been analysed empirically. This paper provides detailed insights for decision making by precisely analysing the synergies attained through the colocation of logistics firms in specialised and diverse logistics concentration areas. The paper analyses whether co-location in logistics concentration areas that specialise in fresh produce provides additional benefits over co-location in diverse logistics concentration areas that do not specialise in any particular type of products. A survey of managers of 127 logistics firms located in logistics concentration areas tested for differences in synergies through co-location in specialised versus diverse logistics concentration areas. Logistics firms co-located in fresh produce logistics parks share knowledge, combine transport and storage capacities, and trade products more than logistics firms co-located in diverse logistics concentration areas.

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“…Cooperative game theory has rarely been applied to the context of multi-drop operations between carriers where the combined scale of operations is significant (27,44). One of the main sources of difficulty with finding a fair and stable allocation in a game is the calculation of the value of a collaboration, bearing in mind that there may be exponentially many coalitions that can be formed among a set N of players and in most instances, one would have to solve a combinatorial optimisation problem, such as hub location, network design, vehicle routing or a combination thereof, to find the value of each possible coalition.…”

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“…Within cargo transportation (e.g. liner shipping or air cargo), there is scope for carriers to form alliances as a mechanism for collaboration but there is also very little literature available within this area of research (44). The literature is yet to see applications of game theoretic concepts to multi-drop parcel operations that fully take into account the characteristics and complexities of the underlying optimisation problems in such settings.…”

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Enabling a Freight Traffic Controller for Collaborative Multidrop Urban Logistics

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Cherrett

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There is increasing interest into how horizontal collaboration between parcel carriers might help alleviate problems associated with last-mile logistics in congested urban centres. Through a detailed examination of parcel logistics literature pertaining to collaboration, along with practical insights from carriers operating in the UK, this paper examines the challenges that will be faced in optimising multi-carrier, multi-drop collection and delivery schedules. We propose the concept of the 'Freight Traffic Controller' (FTC) who would be a trusted third-party, assigned to equitably manage the work allocation between collaborating carriers and the passage of vehicles over the last mile where joint benefits to the parties were achievable. Creating this FTC requires a combinatorial optimisation approach to evaluate the many combinations of hub locations, network configuration and vehicle/walking routing options in order to find the true value of each potential collaboration, whilst at the same time, considering the traffic, social and environmental impacts of these activities. Cooperative game theory is a way to investigate the formation of collaborations (or coalitions) and our analysis identifies a significant shortfall in current applications of this theory to last-mile parcel logistics. Specifically, we identify that application of theory to urban freight logistics has, thus far, failed to account for critical concerns including: i) the mismatch of vehicle parking locations relative to actual delivery addresses; ii) the combination of deliveries with collections, the latter often being received in real-time during the round; and iii) the variability in travel times and route options due to traffic and road network conditions. Allen, Bektas, Cherrett, Friday, McLeod, Piecyk, Piotrowska, Zaltz Austwick 3 INTRODUCTIONThe parcel distribution sector is a crowded and highly competitive marketplace characterised by low profit margins and a proliferation of operators, with carriers typically operating independently from each other, leading to poor vehicle utilisation rates and delivery rounds that overlap (1). With this duplication of effort, as 'everyone delivers everywhere', and the need to reduce CO 2 in urban centres, driven by EU legislation (2), there is a need to fundamentally reinvestigate the efficiency of 'customer-focused' last-mile city logistics operations. We make three contributions in this paper: firstly, we offer a detailed examination of the literature pertaining to collaboration in last-mile parcel logistics; secondly, using our survey along with practical insights from two carrier operations in the UK, we identify key challenges that will be faced in attempting to best optimise multi-carrier, multi-drop collection and delivery schedules whilst maintaining an equitable distribution of work between the parties in the collaboration; finally, we highlight the significant gap between current theory and practice in this regard and introduce the concept of the Freight Traffic Controller as a ...

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Collaboration in Cargo Transportation

Cited by 35 publications

References 54 publications

Collaboration and Urban Transport: A Short Review of the Special Issue

Collaboration and Urban Transport: A Short Review of the Special Issue

Co‐Location Synergies: Specialised Versus Diverse Logistics Concentration Areas

Enabling a Freight Traffic Controller for Collaborative Multidrop Urban Logistics

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