free-floating bike sharing

Hybrid Rebalancing with Dynamic Hubbing for Free-floating Bike Sharing Using Multi-objective Simulation Optimization

  • Hadi Charkhgard
  • Vahid Mahmoodian
  • Yu Zhang
    • Categories Optimization of Simulated Systems, Transportation Tags , , , ,

    For rebalancing problem of free-floating bike sharing systems, we propose dynamic hubbing (i.e. dynamically determining geofencing areas) and hybrid rebalancing (combining user-based and operator-based strategies) and solve the problem with a novel multi-objective simulation optimization approach. Given historical usage data and real-time bike GPS location information, dynamic geofenced areas (hubs) are determined to encourage users … Read more

    Free-Floating Bike Sharing: Solving Real-life Large-scale Static Rebalancing Problems

  • Aritra Pal
  • Yu Zhang
    • Categories Civil and Environmental Engineering, Meta Heuristics, Transportation Tags , , , ,

    Free-floating bike sharing (FFBS) is an innovative bike sharing model. FFBS saves on start-up cost, in comparison to station-based bike sharing (SBBS), by avoiding construction of expensive docking stations and kiosk machines. FFBS prevents bike theft and offers significant opportunities for smart management by tracking bikes in real-time with built-in GPS. However, like SBBS, the … Read more