Car Rental Logistics Problem:A Review of Literature
This paper will introduce a special kind of logistics management problem which exists in the car rental industry.Revenue management conception has been used for reference in the car rental industry to develop booking,pricing and inventory strategies.In order to get a high degree of customer satisfaction and optimize vehicle fleet utilization,logistics managers in the car rental business approximately adopt three decision-making steps: namely,pool segmentation,strategic fleet planning and tactical fleet planning.Optimizing resource deployment and reducing the logistics cost are the targets of logistics management in enterprise.We will review the existing literature on the car rental logistics problem and identify some gaps in current research.This sort of research is prospective and useful for future development of the car rental industry.
car rental logistics optimize resource deployment revenue management demand forecast fleet assignment problem
Yazao Yang Wenzhou Jin Xiaoni Hao
Institute of Intelligent Transportation Systems and LogisticsSouth China University of TechnologyGua Institute of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Logistics South China University of Technology G
国际会议
北京
英文
2008-10-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）