Wang, Xin; Kopfer, Herbert; Gendreau, Michel - In: European Journal of Operational Research 237 (2014) 3, pp. 1133-1141
In order to improve profitability, freight forwarding companies try to organize their operational transportation … vehicles from closely related subcontractors in vertical cooperations, autonomous common carriers on the transportation market …, and cooperating partners in horizontal coalitions. In this paper, the transportation planning process of forwarders is …