• DocumentCode
    3406491
  • Title

    Game analysis on road freight transport service in China

  • Author

    Mo, Hong

  • Author_Institution
    Bus. Sch., Guangxi Univ., Nanning, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    10-12 Nov. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1208
  • Lastpage
    1213
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GSIS.2009.5408096
  • Filename
    5408096