Reference
L. Li, X. Lin,
R. R. Negenborn, and B. De
Schutter, "Pricing intermodal freight transport services: A cost-plus-pricing
strategy," in
Computational Logistics (Proceedings of
the 6th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL'15), Delft,
The Netherlands, Sept. 2015) (F. Corman, S. Voß, and
R. R. Negenborn, eds.),
Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 541-556,
2015.
Abstract
This paper investigates transport services pricing problems faced by intermodal
freight transport operators with fixed transport capacities in an intermodal
freight transport network. We first present an optimal intermodal freight
transport planning model to minimize the total transport cost. This model
captures modality change phenomena, due time requirements, and the possibility
to subcontract transport demands. A cost-plus-pricing strategy is proposed to
determine the service price as the sum of the operational cost and the targeted
profit margins of transport operators under different transport scenarios,
i.e., self-transporting, subcontracting, and a combination of them. For the
reference transport demand specified by a customer, a list of service packages
with different due times, demand sizes, and the determined service prices will
be offered to the customer. Based on the urgency of delivering containers and
the prices of different service packages, the customer will make the final
selection decisions. A case study is given to illustrate the planning model and
our proposed pricing strategy.
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@incollection{LiLin:15-032,
author = {Li, Le and Lin, Xiao and Negenborn, Rudi R. and De Schutter,
Bart},
title = {Pricing Intermodal Freight Transport Services: {A}
Cost-Plus-Pricing Strategy},
booktitle = {Computational Logistics \normalfont(Proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL'15),
Delft, The Netherlands, Sept. 2015)},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
editor = {Corman, Francesco and Vo{\ss}, Stefan and Negenborn, Rudy R.},
publisher = {Springer},
address = {Cham, Switzerland},
pages = {541--556},
year = {2015}
}