Carsharing emerges as a flexible and sustainable transportation mode to deal with severe urban challenges. This paper addresses a joint design problem of carsharing systems by an integer linear programming (ILP) model. Strategic planning of stations’ number, location and parking capacities and tactical planning of the fleet size and initial vehicle distribution are collaboratively optimized by considering all-day vehicle relocation and dynamic trip selection at the operational level. For the first time, vehicle relocation and demand selection are integrated with the joint optimization of strategic and tactical planning. We present a greedy heuristic algorithm embedding ILP to solve the problem. The case study of Chengdu demonstrates that the algorithm is computationally efficient when dealing with large-scale problems. The results identify how vehicle relocation and trip selection work in different scenes of travel time and demands and we conclude operators should target at medium-long trips by discount or promotion.


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    Title :

    Collaborative strategic and tactical planning for one-way station-based carsharing systems with trip selection and vehicle relocation


    Contributors:
    Wu, Jiayuan (author) / Hu, Lu (author) / Jiang, Yangsheng (author)

    Published in:

    Transportation Letters ; 15 , 1 ; 18-29


    Publication date :

    2023-01-02


    Size :

    12 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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