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...

Bike sharing systems are a very popular means to provide bikes to citizens in a simple and cheap way. The idea is to install bike stations at various points in the city, from which a registered user can easily loan a bike by removing it from a specialized rack. After the ride, the user may return the bike at any station (if there is a free rack). Services of this kind are mainly public or semi-...

Bike-sharing systems are becoming popular not only as a sustainable means of transportation in the urban environment, but also as a challenging case study that presents interesting run-time optimization problems. As a side-study within a research project aimed at quantitative analysis that used such a case study, we have observed how the deployed systems enjoy a wide variety of different featur...

On-demand transportation is one of the major success stories of the sharing economy. Surprisingly, the rapid growth of ride-sharing platforms like Lyft and Uber or bike-sharing platforms like Citi Bike (NYC) and Divvy (Chicago) has been possible even though many of their operational challenges remain unsolved. This provides ample opportunities for operations management research on impactful rea...

Abstract The main objective of the current research is to identify and prioritise obstacles using bicycle sharing systems (BSSs) in Tehran metropolis. methodology this analytical-descriptive it aims achieve applied goals. To do so, firstly are identified through studying theoretical practical foundations issue then by delving into factors associated with BSSs metropolis, extracting them content...

Station-based bike-sharing systems have changed the urban landscape of major American cities including New York City, Boston, Washington DC, and Chicago. In these systems, stations are capacitated: a station’s capacity is given by number docks it consists of. Each dock can either be filled with bike or empty bikes at station fluctuating throughout day. Interestingly, in stockouts occur both whe...

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the effect of a recent disruption Mexico's gasoline supply chain on usage public bike-sharing systems in Mexico City and Guadalajara. Design/methodology/approach The authors use detailed data set understand patterns Ecobici Mibici. assess both with differences-in-differences econometric model using least popular stations as control group. Findings find that nu...