Locating Portable Stations to Support the Operation of Bike Sharing Systems

Details

• Creators:
  Walteros, Jose ; Swamy, Rahul
• Corporate Creators:
  State University of New York at Buffalo. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering ; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of General Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  City University of New York. University Transportation Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bicycle travel
  • City planning
  • Commuters
  • Environmental impacts
  • Public health
  • Tourists
  • Urban areas
  • Vehicle sharing
  • Highways
  • Operations and Traffic Management
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  City University of New York. University Transportation Research Center
• Description:
  Redistributing bikes has been a major challenge for the daily operation of bike sharing system around the world. Existing literature explore solution strategies that rely on pick-up-and-delivery routing as well as user incentivization approaches. The key contribution of this work is to introduce the use of portable bike stations to augment the capacity of fixed stations in the context of redistribution. A comprehensive framework to optimally locate, route and redistribute bike using portable stations is proposed using a sequence of Mixed Integer Programs. This strategic and operational decision making process is modeled in two stages. A decomposition based solution strategy is used to solve and fix the strategic decisions.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  49198-23-28
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/34892/dot_34892_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.10 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7d337b7c6d9c62c9027c830c94fcb64758a586ad3141e3175d0149a84eb47045