In the last few years, many Vehicle Sharing Systems (VSSs) have been widely promoted around the world as a sustainable urban transport paradigm. Such systems can be divided in two main categories: one-way VSSs and round-trip VSSs. This paper focuses on the issue of keeping the number of vehicles balanced over the stations in one-way VSSs. Specifically, the paper presents a novel approach called Feedback Dynamic Pricing (FDP), based on the modelling of a VSS as a dynamical system and aimed to control the fleet balancing by varying the price of the service in real-time. To show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, a full-fledged simulator has been developed taking into account the stochastic nature of human decisions. The results obtained using controlled and uncontrolled VSSs are finally compared and discussed.
Active fleet balancing in vehicle sharing systems via Feedback Dynamic Pricing
01.10.2013
1096020 byte
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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