A coalition of freight carriers is considered which has to decide how to allocate a pool of transport requests among its members. The literature is aware of a number of solution approaches which usually assume truthful behavior of the freight carriers. However, the used negotiation protocols are...

"Thomas C. Patterson's large-scale history of the Inland Empire of Southern California traces the social, political and economic changes in this region from the first Native American settlement 12,000 years ago to the present. Framing his discussion of this region in the general growth...

With the increasing importance of the service-providing sectors, information from these sectors has become essential to the understanding of contemporary business cycles. This paper explores the usefulness of the transportation services output index (TSI) as an additional coincident indicator in...

Große Transportdienstleister (TDL) können Einsparpotentiale in der Tourenplanung durch Bündelungseffekte erschließen. Demgegenüber sind kleinere TDL auf die Bildung kooperativer Netzwerke angewiesen, um so ihre Kapazitäten auszulasten. In dieser Arbeit wird ein neuer dezentraler...