Research Article

Allocating Cost to Freight Carriers in Horizontal Logistic Collaborative Transportation Planning on Leading Company Perspective

Table 1

Indices, sets, parameters, and decision variables in the LiCAM.

Indices
A stage in the coalition formation, with

Sets
The set of all players at stage t,
The set of all leading player(s) at stage t
The set of all nonleading players at stage t

Parameters
Total cost is calculated by various multidepot optimization algorithms at stage t
The stand-alone cost of player
The cost of coalition
The cost of coalition
The coalition that forms between players at stage t
The coalition that forms at stage t, where
The calculated cost value of player by model P1

Decision variable
Cost of player allocated by alliance at stage t