bicycle riding is one of the attractions in kish island that is known as an entertainment and enjoyable sport. moreover, it is beneficial to the environmental goals and tourism industry. for this aim, the bicycle rental system is provided by nineteen bicycle stations that have been distributed all around the island by kish free zone organization; also, to spread the bike riding culture and incr...

Rental records contain much sensitive information on individuals, so if abused by the rental service providers, user privacy could be jeopardized. To mitigate this concern, we present a privacy preserving rental system where interests of both the users and the service provider are protected. In particular, users are enabled to engage in a rental service in an anonymous manner; however, users wh...

Pool segmentation is an essential step in the logistics management process for large-scale car rental business. Its main function involves dynamic decisions about pools clustering and regional logistics management centers selecting, whose goal is to optimize fleet utilization and improve the logistics management efficiency. According to developing mode of car rental enterprises and layout of le...

The first two chapters of this thesis focus on the operation of rental businesses, which provides a novel and increasingly significant application of a supply chain and service operation. According to IBISWorld industry reports, at least fifteen different rental industries in the United States have annual revenues exceeding $1 billion. Furthermore, the consumer trend of “access over ownership” ...

Several methods and techniques are systematized for transforming a current product selling business into a reuse business, which is defined as “products are collected and reused in the same or other markets within a framework of rental or lease service”. The proposed methodology consists of six technical elements. There are two major approaches to making a decision to start a reuse business: a ...

This study addresses a strategic design problem for bicycle sharing systems incorporating bicycle stock considerations. The problem is formulated as a hub location inventory model. The key design decisions considered are: the number and locations of bicycle stations in the system, the creation of bicycle lanes between bicycle stations, the selection of paths of users between origins and destina...

The present paper is an attempt to develop a new heuristic algorithm, find the optimal sequence to minimize the utilization time of the machines and hence their rental cost for two stage specially structured flow shop scheduling under specified rental policy in which processing times and set up time are associated with their respective probabilities including transportation time. Further jo...