Competition and cooperation between China-Europe Railway Express operators considering the shipping competition
The market competition of China-Europe Railway Express(CRE)is divided into homogeneous competition among CRE operators and differentiated competition from shipping,which represent internal competition and external competition.CRE operators try to make cooperation.To explore which co-opetition strategies of CRE operators are more effective when considering the impact of shipping competition,a game model of the competition between the two CRE operators and the liner shipping companies under the cooperative and non-cooperative modes was introduced.Considering the geographical location differences between train operators,a Hotelling model was adopted to analyze the revenue distribution between the two CRE operators in cooperative mode.A case study was conducted based on the relevant data of CRE operators that have initially cooperated and shipping operation data.The results show that:1)from the perspective of the development of market-oriented operation,the cooperative mode of CRE operators can simultaneously improve the balanced freight rate and total market share of CRE,which is more conducive to the expansion of the CRE market.CRE operators can appropriately increase freight rates in the cooperation mode,further open up the market for high-value-added goods,and promote the high-quality development of CRE.2)CRE operators can cooperate in the form of unified pricing,and clarify their respective transportation volumes based on the transportation costs and costs caused by spatial and geographical differences,and realize the preliminary exploration of the benefit distribution of CRE operators under the cooperation mode.3)Given the actual operating parameters of CRE,the threshold point can be determined according to the impact of the competition intensity of the CRE operators on the total revenue in the non-cooperative mode.When the intensity of competition between the two CRE operators is less than a certain threshold,the CRE operators would choose the cooperative mode.The increase in the timeliness of CRE has a more significant impact on the total efficiency of CRE operators under the cooperation mode,which can be used as the optimization direction for the development of the cooperative mode.This paper provides insights into the competition and cooperation decisions among CRE operators and the high-quality development of CRE.
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