In order to increase the number of bookings and revenue, most free-floating (electric) bicycle sharing operators periodically move bicycles to high demand areas (a process known as rebalancing). As rebalancing is time and cost intensive, an important question that arises is which bikes should be moved and which bikes are expected to be booked by the users within an acceptable period of time.In this paper, two survival analysis methods are used to analyse the time until the occurrence of the next booking event: the Cox proportional hazards model and random survival forests. Locational characteristics, weather data, day of the week, as well as the number of other bikes in the vicinity are used to model time to booking.Based on the results, the potential of survival analysis for improving operations of a free-floating (e-)bike sharing system is discussed.


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    Title :

    Avoiding stranded bicycles in free-floating bicycle-sharing systems: using survival analysis to derive operational rules for rebalancing


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    Publication date :

    2019-10-01


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    1471203 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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