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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Shipper"”.
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Exchange mechanisms for shipper-carrier negotiations
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.
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A bi-level programming approach for the shipper-carrier network problem
The Stackelberg game betweenshippers and carriers in an intermodal network is formulated as a bi-levelprogram. In this network, shippers make production, consumption, androuting decisions while carriers make pricing and routing decisions.The oligopolistic carrier pricing and routing problem, which …
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An optimization based bidding process : a new framework for shipper-carrier relationships
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Market power and transportation price formation: Theory and an application to the captive shipper problem
We develop a spatial model of bulk commodity transportation price formation. The spatial transportation price model is first developed for the monopolist carrier. Then the model is extended to quantity-setting and price-setting duopolist carriers under incomplete cross-hauling. Measures developed …
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Optimal Freight Service Quality and Implications for Economic Analysis, Inventory-Theoretic Shipper Cost Functions and Run-Through Train Operations
… transportation requires the consumption of both shipper (consumer) and carrier (producer) resources. The quality of freight service impacts the amounts, and hence costs, of both sets of resources. Optimal freight service quality (for a given volume level) minimizes the sum of carrier and relevant …
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Flexibility in transportation procurement : a real options approach
Shippers who use for-hire carriers need a careful estimation of their need for trucking capacity in order to be able to haul products in a timely and cost-effective manner. This thesis outlines a flexible approach to transportation procurement. According to the proposed method, a shipper makes a …
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How to utilize hedging and a fuel surcharge program to stabilize the cost of fuel
… stability for the carrier, at the risk of the shipper. The shipper must maintain that stability through its maintenance of the escalator in the fuel surcharge matrix. Additionally, the shipper should hedge fuel via long term derivatives to establish personal fuel cost stability, creating a …
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Piecewise truckload network procurement
… transportation over its freight network, a shipper can either bid out all of its lanes at once, or somehow divide up the network and bid it out in pieces. For large shippers, practical concerns such as attendant manpower requirements and exposure to financial/operational risks can make the …
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Opportunities for short-sea shipping in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region: evidence based on discrete choice modelling
… of SSS, the stated choice preference of shippers and freight forwarders and the stated intentions of maritime carriers for SSS. It is purported the introduction of SSS in SADC could reduce socio-environmental problems currently faced such as road damage, road congestion, pollution and …
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Relationship between price and performance : an analysis of the US trucking market
This thesis focuses on the study of the carrier-shipper relationships in the US trucking market. It uses data provided by a leading third party logistics (3PL) company to explore and determine whether a relationship exists between the prices charged by the carriers and the performance that they …
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Transportation service procurement using combinatorial auctions
… assets are called combinatorial auctions. With shipper being the auctioneer and carriers being the bidders, combinatorial auction has become increasingly important in the transportation service procurement domain, due to its mechanism to align shipper s procurement interest with carrier …
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Algorithms for bundling and pricing trucking services: Deterministic and stochastic approaches
… of such strategies. In these auctions, a shipper asks carriers for quotes to serve combinations of lanes and the carriers have to bundle demand and price it properly. This dissertation explores several dimensions of the problem employing state-of-the-art analytical tools. These dimensions …
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Truckload Shipment Planning and Procurement
… presents three issues encountered by a shipper in the context of truckload transportation. In all of the studies, we utilize optimization techniques to model and solve the problems. Each study is inspired from the real world and much of the data used in the experiments is real data or …
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The impact of bidding aggregation levels on truckload rates
… of bidding lanes can reduce costs for both shippers and carriers. Using regression analysis, we developed a model to isolate and test the cost effects that influence line-haul rate for long-haul shipments. We have determined that aggregation of low-volume lanes from point-to-point lanes to …
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Impact of risk sharing on competitive bidding in truckload transportation
… of this research was to evaluate whether a shipper's fuel surcharge (FSC) program affected its per-load transportation costs in the United States full-truckload (TL) transportation industry. In this study, we restricted transportation costs to line-haul charges and fuel surcharge premiums. …
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Can shippers and carriers benefit from more robust transportation planning methodologies?
… management frameworks by making assessments of shipper- carrier interactions as they occur within the design of an optimized plan. The results of this thesis include analysis and methods focused on quantification of carrier performance considering various classes of transactional data, bid data, …
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Strategies for cost reduction in procuring trucking services
… cost is the average cost for the lane that a shipper should pay. This market cost is a benchmarking cost available to the shippers. The comparison of planned and actual is important because it helps to develop a strategy that decreases transportation costs by identifying overpaid lanes and …
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Assessing the level of service for shipments originating or terminating on short line railroads
… thesis is that there is an average time from shipper to customer of 8.3 days per load, with a standard deviation of 4.3 days. There is an average 2-day percentage, or highest percentage of loads to arrive in any 2-day window, of 44.7%. These numbers represent a moderate increase in trip time …
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Multivariate analysis of the effect of source and supply and carrier on processing and shipping times for issue priority group one requisitions
… distribution depot and "carrier" refers to a shipper, such as Federal Express®, DHL Worldwide Express®, United Parcel Service, Inc.®, Air Mobility Command and commercial freight forwarders. This study uses Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) linear models, Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) and …
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Analysis of truckload prices and rejection rates
… in the United Sates. Buyers of TL services are shippers with significant amount of shipments throughout a year. Due to the complexity of their network and the large expenditure on transportation, shippers select their carriers through auctions and using optimization methods, and enter into …
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