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Title:

To Bid or Not to Bid: The Supply Determinants of Crowd-Shipping

Accession Number:

01661600

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

This study makes two contributions to the burgeoning literature of crowd-shipping. First, the authors represent a national data set incorporating 16,850 crowd-shipping requests across the United States for the period of January 2015 through December 2016. Second, the authors test a two-part model of supply along with elasticity measurements to summarize the effects of variation in shipping request and package, built environment, and socioeconomic characteristics on both the probability of receiving a bid from a carrier, and the bid count. The authors' results show (1) the supply is unevenly distributed over the nation at the block group level, (2) this geographical disparity is a function of not only the shipping request and service characteristics, but also the socioeconomic and built-environment attributes, (3) the supply has denser pockets in areas with a higher percentage of African-American population, high wage workers, and families with two or more vehicles, and (4) the supply peters off in geographical areas with higher population and employment densities, while, it is accumulated in geographical areas with higher destination accessibility and regional diversity. Transportation planners and crowd-shipping companies can use these results to implement supply creation, geographically restricted growth, and price discrimination strategies profitably.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT015 Standing Committee on Freight Transportation Planning and Logistics. Alternate title: To Bid or Not to Bid: The Supply Determinants of Crowdshipping

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-06449

Language:

English

Authors:

Ermagun, Alireza
Stathopoulos, Amanda

Pagination:

7p

Publication Date:

2018

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Determinants (Economics)

Geographic Terms:

United States

Subject Areas:

Economics; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Society

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-06449

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 11:40AM