Abstract
A dry port is an inland intermodal terminal connected to a seaport via railways. This paper studies a rail transportation pricing problem with quantity discounts in a dry port system consisting of one dry port and multiple shippers. This problem is modeled as a Stackelberg game where the dry port is the leader and the shippers are followers. An all-units quantity discount pricing scheme with a single breakpoint is adopted. Optimal properties are analyzed and the global optimal solution is derived. Numerical studies are conducted to examine the effectiveness of quantity discount pricing under various scenarios.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 563-580 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review |
| Volume | 122 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2019 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Dry port
- Quantity discount
- Rail container transport
- Transportation pricing