A spatial framework for Planning station-based bike sharing systems

On-line Dynamic Station Redeployments in Bike-Sharing Systems

Bike-sharing has seen great development during recent years, both in Europe and globally. However, these systems are far from perfect. The uncertainty of the customer demand often leads to an unbalanced distribution of bicycles over the time and space (congestion and/or starvation), resulting both in a loss of customers and a poor customer experience. In order to improve those aspects, we propo...

Hierarchical Clustering and Multilevel Refinement for the Bike-Sharing Station Planning Problem

We investigate the Bike-Sharing Station Planning Problem (BSSPP). A bike-sharing system consists of a set of rental stations, each with a certain number of parking slots, distributed over a geographical region. Customers can rent available bikes at any station and return them at any other station with free parking slots. The initial decision process where to build stations of which size or how ...

Balancing Bike Sharing Systems

Bike Sharing Systems became popular in recent years to extend the public transportation network of cities or regions. Most research in this area focuses on finding the optimal locations for bike sharing stations. Still various approaches on how to operate such a system efficiently exist. The usefulness of a bike sharing system strongly depends on the user convenience which is directly connected...

Full-load route planning for balancing bike sharing systems by logic-based benders decomposition

Rebalancing Dockless Bike Sharing Systems

Bike sharing provides an environment-friendly way for traveling and is booming all over the world. Yet, due to the high similarity of user travel patterns, the bike imbalance problem constantly occurs, especially for dockless bike sharing systems, causing significant impact on service quality and company revenue. Thus, it has become a critical task for bike sharing systems to resolve such imbal...