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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2018, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (9): 97-105.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2018.09.010

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Cost Allocation for Combined Transportation of Perishable Products Based on Restricted Cooperation Game

SHAN Er-fang, LIANG Li-min, ZHANG Guang   

  1. School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2016-07-10 Revised:2017-04-02 Online:2018-09-20 Published:2018-11-23

Abstract: With the development of economy, people's living standards are improving. This results in the fact that more and more people have higher requirements on the freshness of perishable products. In the process of transportation, the freshness of perishable goods will not only decay as time passes, but also be affected by the preservation technology. But the construction of cold chain infrastructure in our country is still in the early stage of development, neither the cold chain technology nor the number of freezing facilities meet the needs of the market. So the perishable goods retailers have proposed collaboration transportation to increase the utilization rate of cold chain facilities and reduce the transportation cost. Hence, it is necessary to pour attention to cost allocation between cooperation alliances. On the basis of this, the two questions concerned in this paper are presented:(1) How to measure the freshness of perishable products and the impact of preservation technology on the freshness of perishable products? (2) How to formulate the cost allocation problem with capacity constraints? To answer these questions, the study is conducted by the following steps. First, the impact of preservation technology on the freshness of perishable products is analyzed, and the total cost function which contains transportation cost and decay value is provided. Then the cost allocation problem with capacity constraints is formulated as the restricted cost allocation game (N,c,Ω):

Furthermore, in order to solve the restricted cost allocation game, the notion of the limit core is introduced as follows.

The conditions of non-empty core are given. Finally, the numerical analysis illustrates the difference among restricted core, Shapley value, τ value and nucleolus. Restricted game is introduced to solve the cost allocation problem of collaboration transportation with capacity limitation, making up for the blank of relevant literature research.

Key words: perishable product, combined transportation, restricted cooperative game, cost allocation, limited core

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