Sharing Economy for Cost Reduction and Efficiency Increase: The Case of Sharing E-Commerce Logistics

Table 1

Symbol description.

Symbol description
Symbol	Meaning
	Stochastic market demand
	Probability density function for stochastic market demand
	Probability distribution function for stochastic market demand
	Market size
	Unit service price of express delivery companies
	The market service requirements for express delivery companies
	Unit transportation cost of sharing logistics distribution service
	Nonscale economic cost of sharing logistics distribution service
	Intercity unit transportation cost of express delivery companies
	The unit service price of the sharing logistics distribution company for offering sharing delivery services to the express delivery companies
	The unit residual value of the sharing logistics distribution service (usually the price of temporary provision of social logistics services)
	The unit opportunity cost of the sharing logistics distribution service
	The revenue function of the sharing logistics distribution company
	The revenue function of the express delivery company
	Oversupply loss
	Undersupply loss
	The overall revenue of the centralized sharing logistics supply chain
	The overall revenue of the decentralized sharing logistics supply chain
	The overall revenue of the RE-OFP sharing logistics supply chain
	The overall revenue of the RS-OFP sharing logistics supply chain
	The overall revenue of the RE-RSF sharing logistics supply chain
	The overall revenue of the RS-RSF sharing logistics supply chain