Highlights Provide an integrated framework of matching, routing, pricing, and compensation. Develop/evaluate pricing & compensation schemes under different demand & supply. Consider platform provider's profit, sender's surplus, and courier's surplus. Utilize real-world data of WTP and ETP to improve the reliability of the study. Use WTP and ETP values to examine the sensitivity of CS platform provider's profits.

    Abstract This paper’s objective is to identify pricing and compensation schemes under different demand and supply scenarios for crowd-shipping (CS) systems. As such, an integrated framework of matching and routing models have been developed. A routing strategy is established to estimate for distances that couriers need to travel for picking up and delivering packages. A matching model is developed to assign crowd-shipping customers (i.e. senders) to couriers and to maximize the CS platform providers’ benefits. Four different schemes of pricing and compensation are developed and evaluated. CS firms are noticed to have the highest profits when apply the ‘individual’ pricing and compensation schemes. The platform provider’s profits are found more sensitive with the increase of willingness to pay (WTP) than the rise of expected to-be-paid (ETP). The insights are helpful for CS firms to attract and retain customers and couriers in the system, by setting up optimal prices and optimal compensations based on demand and supply levels as well as the firms’ expected profits and platform-users’ presuming surplus.


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    Titel :

    Designing pricing and compensation schemes by integrating matching and routing models for crowd-shipping systems


    Beteiligte:
    Le, Tho V. (Autor:in) / Ukkusuri, Satish V. (Autor:in) / Xue, Jiawei (Autor:in) / Van Woensel, Tom (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-12-20




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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