Insights on Car Relocation Operations in One-Way Carsharing Systems

Toward User-Based Relocation Information Systems in Station-Based One-Way Car Sharing

Car sharing is an important mobility service to approach urban and suburban mobility problems. It is a sustainable means of transport because it lowers the emissions of each car sharing customer by substituting privately owned vehicles by joint used ones. Nevertheless, car sharing still has to fully unfold its potential and has to overcome certain obstacles. For instance, it is necessary to sub...

Electric-vehicle car-sharing in one-way car-sharing systems considering depreciation costs of vehicles and chargers

In recent years, car-sharing systems have been announced as a way to increase mobility and to decrease the number of single-occupant vehicles, congestion, and air pollution in many parts of the world. This study presents a linear programming model to optimize one-way car-sharing systems for electric cars considering the depreciation costs of chargers and vehicles as well as relocation cost of v...

Relocation in Carsharing Systems Using Flows in Time-Expanded Networks

Generating Rental Data for Car Sharing Relocation Simulations on the Example of Station-Based One-Way Car Sharing

Developing sophisticated car sharing simulations is a major task to improve car sharing as a sustainable means of transportation, because new algorithms for enhancing car sharing efficiency are formulated using them. Simulations rely on input data, which is often gathered in car sharing systems or artificially generated. Real-world data is often incomplete and biased while artificial data is mo...

Testing the Validity of the MIP Approach for Locating Carsharing Stations in One-way Systems Citation

The most relevant problem to manage one-way carsharing systems is the vehicle stock imbalance across the stations. Previous research proposed a mathematical model for choosing the stations’ location as an approach to solve it. However, it does not allow including relocation operations and trip uncertainty. In this paper we develop a simulation model that considers demand variability and one veh...