Analysis of collaborative savings and cost allocation techniques for the cooperative carrier facility location problem Universiteit Hasselt
Transport companies may cooperate to increase their efficiency levels by e.g. the exchange of orders or vehicle capacity. In this paper a new approach to horizontal carrier collaboration is presented: the sharing of distribution centres (DCs) with partnering organisations. This problem can be classified as a cooperative facility location problem and formulated as an innovative mixed integer linear program. To ensure cooperation sustainability, ...