Towards a Matching System for the Auction of Transport Orders

This research will focus on the use of new information technology to improve urban freight transportation. Using IT in urban freight transport inter-organizationally, which can be done by facilitating the trade and negotiation between shippers and carriers, will be the focus on this research. The main goal of this research is to establish in what way matching systems contribute to the realization of the goals of the involved actors involved. A matching system is system that tries to combine the demand and supply of freight transport services. These ‘matching systems’ offer shippers and carriers the ability to communicate with each other via Internet and to trade in an innovative way. These systems are set up for various reasons, such as a better use of the available resources and a decrease of the transport costs. This research analyses the effects of these matching systems on carriers, the companies that execute the physical transportation of the freight, and shippers which are the companies that offer loads to be transported. To be able to analyze an ‘artificial’ auction of transport orders is modeled in Delphi. The main objects in the model are shippers, carriers, and trucks. In the model a shipper offers loads. Different carriers can bid on these loads. Each carrier has a number of trucks which can transport the freight. The model is discrete dynamic. Simulation experiments have been carried out in five scenarios: the results of the simulation experiments have given us a rich dataset for analyzing the auction behavioral aspects of the carriers.

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  Elsevier

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  New York, NY  United States  10011-1710
• Authors:
  • van Duin, JHR
  • Kneyber, J C
• Conference:
  • The 3rd International Conference on City Logistics
  • Location: Maderia , Portugal
  • Date: 2003-6-25 to 2003-6-27
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: First
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 163-177
• Monograph Title: Logistics Systems for Sustainable Cities

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Carriers; Communications; Freight transportation; Information technology; Innovation; Loads; Public transit; Resource allocation; Shippers associations; Simulation; Trade; Trucks
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01002731
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0080442609
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 28 2005 11:05AM