Optimizing the level of service quality of a bike-sharing system

R Alvarez-Valdes, JM Belenguer, E Benavent… - Omega, 2016 - Elsevier
Public bike-sharing programs have been deployed in hundreds of cities worldwide,
improving mobility in a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable way. However …

An exact algorithm for the static rebalancing problem arising in bicycle sharing systems

G Erdoğan, M Battarra, RW Calvo - European Journal of Operational …, 2015 - Elsevier
Bicycle sharing systems can significantly reduce traffic, pollution, and the need for parking
spaces in city centers. One of the keys to success for a bicycle sharing system is the …

A time-space network flow approach to dynamic repositioning in bicycle sharing systems

D Zhang, C Yu, J Desai, HYK Lau… - … research part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
Faced with increasing population density, rising traffic congestion, and the resulting upsurge
in carbon emissions, several urban metropolitan areas have instituted public bicycle sharing …

Solving a static repositioning problem in bike-sharing systems using iterated tabu search

SC Ho, WY Szeto - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study the static bike repositioning problem where the problem consists of
selecting a subset of stations to visit, sequencing them, and determining the pick-up/drop-off …

[HTML][HTML] A destroy and repair algorithm for the bike sharing rebalancing problem

M Dell, M Iori, S Novellani, T Stützle - Computers & Operations Research, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, we deal with the Bike sharing Rebalancing Problem (BRP), which is the
problem of driving a fleet of capacitated vehicles to redistribute bicycles among the stations …

A heuristic algorithm for a single vehicle static bike sharing rebalancing problem

F Cruz, A Subramanian, BP Bruck, M Iori - Computers & Operations …, 2017 - Elsevier
The static bike rebalancing problem (SBRP) concerns the task of repositioning bikes among
stations in self-service bike-sharing systems. This problem can be seen as a variant of the …

[HTML][HTML] A static free-floating bike repositioning problem with multiple heterogeneous vehicles, multiple depots, and multiple visits

Y Liu, WY Szeto, SC Ho - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a bike repositioning problem with multiple depots, multiple visits, and multiple
heterogeneous vehicles for the free-floating bike-sharing system (FFBSS) is studied. Two …

[HTML][HTML] A multiple type bike repositioning problem

Y Li, WY Szeto, J Long, CS Shui - Transportation Research Part B …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper investigates a new static bicycle repositioning problem in which multiple types of
bikes are considered. Some types of bikes that are in short supply at a station can be …

A branch-and-bound algorithm for solving the static rebalancing problem in bicycle-sharing systems

AA Kadri, I Kacem, K Labadi - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Bicycle sharing systems are transportation systems that allow the users to rent a bicycle at
one of many automatic rental stations scattered around the city, use them for a short travel …

Balancing bicycle sharing systems: an approach for the dynamic case

C Kloimüllner, P Papazek, B Hu, GR Raidl - Evolutionary Computation in …, 2014 - Springer
Operators of public bicycle sharing systems (BSSs) have to regularly redistribute bikes
across their stations in order to avoid them getting overly full or empty. We consider the …