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Minimizing Fleet Size and Improving Bike Allocation of Bike Sharing under Future Uncertainty (preprint)
arxiv; 2022.
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in English
| PREPRINT-ARXIV | ID: ppzbmed-2204.08603v1
ABSTRACT
As a rapidly expanding service, bike sharing is facing severe problems of bike over-supply and demand fluctuation in many Chinese cities. This study develops a large-scale method to determine the minimum fleet size under uncertainty, based on the bike sharing data of millions of trips in Nanjing. It is found that the algorithm of minimizing fleet size under the incomplete-information scenario is effective in handling future uncertainty. For a dockless bike sharing system, supplying 14.5% of the original fleet could meet 96.8% of trip demands. Meanwhile, the results suggest that providing a integrated service platform that integrates multiple companies can significantly reduce the total fleet size by 44.6%. Moreover, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study proposes a social distancing policy that maintains a suitable usage interval. These findings provide useful insights for improving the resource efficiency and operational service of bike sharing and shared mobility.
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COVID-19
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2022
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