Collaborative initiatives have gained significant interest and importance recently from academia as well as industry as an environmentally conscious, yet efficient and effective strategy for the transport of raw materials and finished products in the supply chain. Transport collaboration can be considered to be strategic asset for optimizing the supply chain and improving the competitiveness of companies. A group of shippers and carriers from the same or different lines of business can form transport coalitions in order to reap benefits from coordinated freight movement. However, building a...