A carsharing service has been highlighted as a sustaining service in the environmentally friendly economy. However, the operation model was not compared among potential options in order to provide successful service models to customers, devising a profitable business model. Thus, this paper aims at proposing a simulation model by evaluating the performance of possible service models. The factor...

In this paper we demonstrate the potential of data analytics methods for location-based services. We develop a support system that enables user-based relocation of vehicles in free-floating carsharing models. In these businesses, customers can rent and leave cars anywhere within a predefined operational area. However, due to this flexibility, freefloating carsharing is prone to supply and deman...

In this example, we reanalyze the soybean yield data, but treat the explanatory variable as a categorical (ordinal) variable with 4 levels and use one−way anova to test for a significant SO2 effect. We can think of the data as samples from four different populations, corresponding to the SO2 concentration the chambers received, with possibly different means. In each treatment group we have 3 ob...