Bilevel programming; Intermodal pricing; Service network design
Abstract :
[en] This work addresses the problem of jointly designing and pricing intermodal freight services during a medium-term planning horizon. Given the innate hierarchy in the problem, a bilevel program is considered where, at the upper level, an intermodal service provider seeks to maximize his profit through selecting the frequencies of his services and their associated prices, while at the lower level, target shipper firms choose to send their demands among the offered intermodal itineraries and the always available trucking competition.
