Title :
Game analysis on road freight transport service in China
Author_Institution :
Bus. Sch., Guangxi Univ., Nanning, China
Abstract :
Currently, price wars between road freight transport enterprises are intense. The road freight transport industry has been developing very slowly in China. Faced the fact that competition within road freight transport industry is getting fierce in China, this essay is based on the perspective of game theory, adopting the Bertrand oligopoly model to analyze the price behavior among road freight transport enterprises. Game theory (pure strategic Nash equilibrium & admixture strategic Nash equilibrium) has been used to analyze the relation between price of transport service and service quality within road freight transport industry. It is pointed out that making different pricing policies due to different service qualities is not only profitable for road freight transport enterprises, but also beneficial to the overall improvement of road freight transport service quality. It is also suggested that different road freight transport service prices reflect the positive correlation between road freight transport service price and road freight transport service quality.
Keywords :
game theory; road traffic; transportation; Bertrand oligopoly model; admixture strategic Nash equilibrium; game analysis; game theory; price behavior; price wars; pure strategic Nash equilibrium; road freight transport industry; road freight transport service; service quality; Companies; Costs; Game theory; Industrial relations; Logistics; Nash equilibrium; Oligopoly; Pricing; Roads; Toy industry;
Conference_Titel :
Grey Systems and Intelligent Services, 2009. GSIS 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4914-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4916-3
DOI :
10.1109/GSIS.2009.5408096