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However, limited by the number of orders accepted by enterprises, many cold chain transportation vehicles for agricultural products struggle to reach a full load. This undoubtedly increases transportation costs for agricultural product cold chain logistics enterprises. In order to reduce the cost of transportation and increase the profit of enterprises, this paper will adopt the strategy of building enterprise coalition based on cooperative game theory. By increasing the loading rate of transportation vehicles, it will increase the profit of enterprises. First, utilizing the minimization of overall dissatisfaction among players in profit allocation after coalition participation as the objective function, a model of the equal division contribution values of the trapezoidal fuzzy number will be constructed, which will be used as the profit allocation model for the players. Then, the solution of the model will be provided, and the properties including symmetry are analyzed. Second, by improving the loading rate of cold chain transport vehicles as the key and combining various parameters in the transportation stage of agricultural product cold chain logistics, the coalition profit will be calculated. Finally, using the solution of the equal division contribution value of the trapezoidal fuzzy number in the cooperative game as the allocation strategy, the obtained profit will be distributed to each enterprise participating in the coalition. The results show that when dealing with cooperative profit allocation problems in similar scenarios, the solutions of the equal division contribution value of the trapezoidal fuzzy number are highly reliable and adaptable. The method presented in this paper can not only increase the profit of enterprises but also minimize the overall dissatisfaction of all enterprises with the allocation result.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym17020210","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,30]],"date-time":"2025-01-30T04:01:39Z","timestamp":1738209699000},"page":"210","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Equal Division Contribution Values of Trapezoidal Fuzzy Numbers and Their Application to Profit Allocation in Cold Chain Logistics for Agricultural Products"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Jungan","family":"Zhan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Jinshan College, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"}]},{"given":"Rong","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350108, China"}]},{"given":"Minghao","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350108, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1936-2506","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiacai","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jinshan College, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"},{"name":"College of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350108, China"}]},{"given":"Wenjian","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jinshan College, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"236","DOI":"10.1007\/s40815-015-0016-5","article-title":"A new method for solving fuzzy linear programming problems based on the fuzzy linear complementary problem (FLCP)","volume":"17","author":"Mottaghi","year":"2015","journal-title":"Int. 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