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

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...

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...

An optimization framework for the development of efficient one-way car-sharing systems

Electric vehicle-sharing systems have been introduced to a number of cities as a means of increasing mobility, reducing congestion, and pollution. Electric vehicle-sharing systems can offer one or two-way services. One-way systems provide more flexibility to users since they can be dropped-off at any station. However, their modeling involves a number of complexities arising from the need to rel...

Automatic parking and platooning for electric vehicles redistribution in a car-sharing application

In car-sharing applications and during certain time slots, some parking stations become full whereas others are empty. To redress this imbalance, vehicle redistribution strategies must be elaborated. As automatic relocation cannot be in place, one alternative is to get a leader vehicle, driven by a human, which come to pick up and drop off vehicles over the stations. This paper deals with the v...

Parking reservation policies in one-way vehicle sharing systems

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