The study of B2C electronic commerce impacts on the freights'' transportation industry

• Main Authors: Yi-Chih Chang, 張毅志
• Other Authors: Cheng-Chang Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14886348170716739750

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 交通管理學系 === 89 === ABSTRACT According to the internet users’ stastical reports from the Institute For Information Industry(I.I.I) in 2001,it shows almost six millions people in Taiwan having on-line experiences.rapidly growing speed on internet brings strong developing potential for electronical commerce(e.c).the latest report says that the market scale in Taiwan’s internet consuming had reached 1.6 billions N.T dollars in 1999 and 3.9 billions N.T dollars in 2000 and it also predicts 6.4 billion N.T dollars this year.a lot of companys in Taiwan has provided consumers shopping service on internet right now.besides rare large firms,most of companys have to outsource their delivering service to the time definite common carriers ,express companys and postal service etc.the internet companys choose one or multiple kinds of freight transportation companys to deliver their own products to consumers. This study discusses the B2C electonic commerce’s impacts to the freight transportation industry.at first,we investigate the internet on-line stores’ kinds of products,characters of products,delivering days and delivering requirements.through the merchandise’s factors like price,item,volume,and product’s life cycle ,we can conclude that the postal service has the largest market share and the best developing situation. time definite common carriers are fitable for high value,large volume and merchandises which life cycles are short.the express companys have better chances in merchandises which have high value,small volume and short life cycle. Basically,the internet B2C market brings more business for the transportation freights’ industry.but the volume change for each origion and destnation are more unpredictable. considering this factor, we modle the problem into the math problems with probabilistic factor.we use the time definite common carrier’s operation network as numberical example.the conclusion is that we increase the same margin of volumes but overall operation cost’s increment will be higher each time we increase.and if we consider every o-d pairs’ probability condition more circumstantial and other factors unchanged ,we will have a lower overall operation cost.