Download or read book Cost allocation methods in cooperative transportation planning written by Joen Dahlberg and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation, together with transportation planning for goods, provides good conditions for economic growth and is a natural part of modern society. However, transportation has negative side effects, including emissions and traffic congestion. A freight forwarder may consolidate shippers’ goods in order to reduce some of the negative side effects, thus reducing emissions and/or congestion as well as operational costs. The negative side effects as well as operational costs can be further reduced if a number of freight forwarders cooperate and consolidate their collective goods flows. Consolidation refers to the process of merging a number of the freight forwarders’ shipments of goods into a single shipment. In this case, the freight forwarders are cooperating with competitors (the other freight forwarders). Fair cost allocations are important for establishing and maintaining cost-efficient cooperation among competing stakeholders. Cooperative game theory defines a number of criteria for fair cost allocations and the problem associated with the decision process for allocating costs is referred to as the cost allocation problem. In this thesis, cooperative game theory is used as an academic tool to study cooperation among stakeholders in two transportation planning applications, namely 1) the distribution of goods bound for urban areas and 2) the transportation of wood between harvest areas and industries. In transportation planning application 1, there is a cooperation among a number of freight forwarders and a municipality. Freight forwarders’ goods bound for an urban area are consolidated at a facility located just outside the urban area. In this thesis, operational costs for distributing the goods are assessed by solving vehicle routing problems. Common methods from cooperative game theory are used for allocating the operational costs among the freight forwarders and the municipality. In transportation planning application 2, forest companies cooperate in terms of the supply and transportation of common resources, or more specifically, different types of wood. Each forest company has harvest areas and industries to which the wood is transported. The resources may be bartered, that is, the forest companies may transport wood from each other’s harvest areas. In the cooperative game theory literature, the stakeholders are often treated equally in the context of transportation planning. However, there seems to be a lack of studies on cooperations where at least one stakeholder differs from the other stakeholders in some fundamental way, for instance, as an initiator or an enabler of the cooperation. Such cooperations are considered in this thesis. The municipality and one of the forest companies are considered to be the initiators in their respective applications. Five papers are appended to this thesis and the overall aim is to contribute to the research into cooperative transportation planning by using concepts from cooperative game theory to develop methods for allocating costs among cooperating stakeholders. The purpose of this thesis is to provide decision support for planners in the decisionmaking process of transportation planning to establish cost-efficient and stable cooperations. Some of the main outcomes of this thesis are viable and practical methods that could be used in real-life situations to allocate costs among cooperating stakeholders, as well as support for decisionmakers who are concerned with transportation planning. This is done by demonstrating the potential of cooperation, such as cost reduction, and by suggesting how costs can be allocated fairly in the transportation planning applications considered. Lastly, a contribution to cooperative game theory is provided; the introduction of a development of the equal profit method for allocating costs. The proposed version is the equal profit method with lexicography, which, in contrast to the former, guarantees to yield at most one solution to any cost allocation problem. Lexicography is used to rank potential cost allocations and the unambiguously best cost allocation is chosen.

Download or read book Cooperative Transportation Planning and Cost Allocation written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sharing the Costs of Human Services Transportation Research report written by Jon E. Burkhardt and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2011 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 144: Sharing the Costs of Human Services Transportation, Volume 1: The Transportation Services Cost Sharing Toolkit and Volume 2: Research Report explore issues and potential solutions for identifying and sharing the cost of providing transportation services for access to community-based human services programs. Collectively, the two volumes examine current practices and offer strategies for collecting necessary data, addressing administrative and policy-related issues, and establishing cost allocation procedures. Volume 1: The Transportation Services Cost Sharing Toolkit leads the user through the process of setting up the necessary cost accounting system, identifying the data requirements and the measurement parameters, and describing procedures for applying the model. This volume concludes with instructions for using the actual Cost Sharing Model. Volume 2: The Research Report summarizes all of the study components that contributed to formation of the Toolkit. It includes an extended evaluation of current experience and describes the regulatory environment that frames transportation service delivery requirements. An executive summary of the report is included with the printed report. The report includes the Cost Sharing Model along with instructions for setup and application on a CD-ROM, which is packaged with the reports.

Download or read book Development of an Optimal Durability based Highway Cost Allocation Model written by Christos N. Makrigeorgis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Target setting Methods and Data Management to Support Performance based Resource Allocation by Transportation Agencies written by National Cooperative Highway Research Program and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2010 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 666: Target Setting Methods and Data Management to Support Performance-Based Resource Allocation by Transportation Agencies - Volume I: Research Report, and Volume II: Guide for Target-Setting and Data Management provides a framework and specific guidance for setting performance targets and for ensuring that appropriate data are available to support performance-based decision-making. Volume III to this report was published separately in an electronic-only format as NCHRP Web-Only Document 154. Volume III includes case studies of organizations investigated in the research used to develop NCHRP Report 666.

Download or read book Metropolitan Development and Transportation Planning written by Britton Harris and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cost allocation Methods for Commuter Intercity and Freight Rail Operations on Shared use Rail Systems and Corridors written by National Cooperative Highway Research Program and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Prospectus for Coordinated Transportation Planning in the National Capital Region written by Fairfax County (Va.). Board of Supervisors and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban Transportation Planning in the United States written by Edward Weiner and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economic Trends and Multimodal Transportation Requirements written by Louis Berger International, inc and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cooperative Land Use Transportation Planning written by Halaine M. Maccabee and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Guidebook for Forecasting Freight Transportation Demand written by National Cooperative Highway Research Program and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Institutional Framework for Integrated Transportation Planning written by Public Technology, inc and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Innovative Practices for Multimodal Transportation Planning for Freight and Passengers written by National Cooperative Highway Research Program and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New Vision of Mobility written by Matthew A. Coogan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This digest summarizes the results of Phase I of a cooperative research effort jointly funded by TCRP Project H-29 and NCHRP Project 8-45 ... This digest was written by a TransManagement, Inc. team, including Matthew Coogan, Michael Meyer, and Christina Casgar.

Download or read book Cooperative Agreements for Corridor Management written by Kristine Williams and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2004 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 337: Cooperative Agreements for Corridor Management examines the current state of practice in developing and implementing cooperative agreements for corridor management, elements of such agreements, and successful practices or lessons learned. The report focuses on cooperative agreements between two or more government agencies or between public and private entities that address land use and transportation linkages.

Download or read book Cooperative Strategy in Regional Transportation Planning written by Kermit Wies and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: