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Abstract
The road transportation contributes to a large portion of global carbon emissions each year. This carbon emission can be significantly reduced through collaboration among carriers. In this paper, a multi-round combinatorial double auction with both requests exchange and carbon emission permits trading is proposed for carrier collaboration, where each carrier may play a double role as both a seller and a buyer. In each round of the auction, the auctioneer announces the outsourcing price of each request and the unit trading price of emission permits. Each carrier then determines and bids for mutually exclusive request bundles to outsource and insource, along with their maximum and minimum trading volumes of emission permits. After receiving the supply and demand bids, the auctioneer tentatively reassigns requests and reallocates emission permits among carriers. At the end of each round, the outsourcing price of each request and the unit trading price of emission permits are updated based on the bids in previous rounds. Computational study shows that the proposed auction can generate more profits to carriers and reduce total carbon emissions significantly.
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Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review is a reputable journal that publishes high-quality articles covering a wide range of topics in the field of logistics and transportation research. The journal welcomes submissions on various subjects, including transport economics, transport infrastructure and investment appraisal, evaluation of public policies related to transportation, empirical and analytical studies of logistics management practices and performance, logistics and operations models, and logistics and supply chain management.
Part E aims to provide informative and well-researched articles that contribute to the understanding and advancement of the field. The content of the journal is complementary to other prestigious journals in transportation research, such as Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Part B: Methodological, Part C: Emerging Technologies, Part D: Transport and Environment, and Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. Together, these journals form a comprehensive and cohesive reference for current research in transportation science.