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This paper discusses the formation process of operational transport collaboration systems. The actors forming this process are divided into two subgroups: potentially participating hauliers and a system provider offering the technical and cooperative framework. As such the formation process is characterized by two decision making problems—that of the hauliers and that of the system provider. Goals pursued when instituting operational transport collaboration are derived from research on strategic alliances and a heuristic procedure capable of supporting both decisions is introduced.
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This research was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Collaborative Research Centre 637 “Autonomous Cooperating Logistics Processes—A Paradigm Shift and its Limitations” (Subproject B9).
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Bloos, M., Kopfer, H. (2011). On the Formation of Operational Transport Collaboration Systems. In: Kreowski, HJ., Scholz-Reiter, B., Thoben, KD. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11996-5_17
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