Coordinating Demand and Supply for Crowd Logistics Platforms with Network Effect

Table 1

Notations.

Parameter	Explanation
p (t)	Price of crowd logistics
D (p,t)	Demand for crowd logistics
S (p,t)	Supply of crowd logistics
W (p,t)	Wage of service providers
Y (t)	Cumulative delay orders
α	Initial demand value
h	Unit penalty cost on cumulative delay order
γ	Wage ratio, 0<γ < 1
ε	Sensitivity coefficient of supply to wage
μ1	Direct-network effects’ intensity, 0<μ1 < 1
μ2	Cross-network effects’ intensity, 0<μ2 < 1