Relocating operational and damaged bikes in free-floating systems: A data-driven modeling framework for level of service enhancement

X Chang, J Wu, H Sun, GH de Almeida Correia… - … Research Part A: Policy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Free-floating bike sharing is an innovative and sustainable travel mode, where shared bikes
can be picked up and returned at any proper place on the streets and not just at docking …

A long-term perspective on the COVID-19: The bike sharing system resilience under the epidemic environment

H Bi, Z Ye, Y Zhang, H Zhu - Journal of Transport & Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction The sudden COVID-19 pandemic poses a fresh and tough challenge to bike
sharing systems (BSS). With this epidemic as a shock event, this paper aspires to shed light …

A Smart Predict-then-Optimize method for dynamic green bike relocation in the free-floating system

X Chang, J Wu, H Sun, X Yan - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cities are facing numerous challenges such as road traffic congestion and environmental
pollution. Bike-sharing, as an emission-free travel mode, aligns with the principle of green …

Dynamic intra-cell repositioning in free-floating bike-sharing systems using approximate dynamic programming

X Luo, L Li, L Zhao, J Lin - Transportation Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
In bike-sharing systems, the spatiotemporal imbalance of bike flows leads to shortages of
bikes at some locations and overages at some others, depending on the time of the day …

Column-and-constraint-generation-based approach to a robust reverse logistic network design for bike sharing

S Huang, K Liu, ZH Zhang - Transportation Research Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dockless bike-sharing systems have grown rapidly in China in recent years. A large number
of shared bikes have been put into use, which results in a serious problem of uncollected …

Modelling methods for planning and operation of bike-sharing systems

RB Nath, T Rambha - Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 2019 - Springer
Bike-sharing systems (BSSs) are emerging as a popular type of shared vehicle platform
where users can rent bicycles without having to own and maintain them. BSSs are ideal for …

Multi-Platform dynamic game and operation of hybrid Bike-Sharing systems based on reinforcement learning

Z Shi, M Xu, Y Song, Z Zhu - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The advent of electric bikes, or ebikes, has significantly enhanced competitiveness of bike-
sharing systems, providing benefits to both riders (comfort during uphill and long-distance …

Availability simulation and transfer prediction for bike sharing systems based on discrete event simulation

Y Zhou, Y Chen, S Liu, G Kou - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
To improve the operational efficiency of Bike Sharing Systems (BSSs), predicting users' real
demand plays an essential role. Previous demand predictions have heavily relied on the …

Availability analysis of shared bikes using abnormal trip data

Y Zhou, G Kou, ZZ Guo, H Xiao - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
The users' cancelling rental data in the bike-sharing system (BSS) is usually regarded as
abnormal trip data and is ignored. Abnormal trip data may have implicit information about …

Optimal Rebalancing Strategy for Shared e‐Scooter Using Genetic Algorithm

S Kim, G Lee, S Choo - Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Shared e‐scooters are provided as a free‐floating service that can be freely rented and
returned within the service area. Although this has a positive effect in terms of convenience …