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The Bike-Sharing Rebalancing Problem Considering Multi-Energy Mixed Fleets and Traffic Restrictions

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  • Yongji Jia

    (Glorious Sun School of Business & Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China)

  • Wang Zeng

    (Glorious Sun School of Business & Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China)

  • Yanting Xing

    (Glorious Sun School of Business & Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China)

  • Dong Yang

    (Glorious Sun School of Business & Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China)

  • Jia Li

    (Glorious Sun School of Business & Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China)

Abstract

Nowadays, as a low-carbon and sustainable transport mode bike-sharing systems are increasingly popular all over the world, as they can reduce road congestion and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Aiming at the problem of the mismatch of bike supply and user demand, the operators have to transfer bikes from surplus stations to deficiency stations to redistribute them among stations by vehicles. In this paper, we consider a mixed fleet of electric vehicles and internal combustion vehicles as well as the traffic restrictions to the traditional vehicles in some metropolises. The mixed integer programming model is firstly established with the objective of minimizing the total rebalancing cost of the mixed fleet. Then, a simulated annealing algorithm enhanced with variable neighborhood structures is designed and applied to a set of randomly generated test instances. The computational results and sensitivity analysis indicate that the proposed algorithm can effectively reduce the total cost of rebalancing.

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  • Yongji Jia & Wang Zeng & Yanting Xing & Dong Yang & Jia Li, 2020. "The Bike-Sharing Rebalancing Problem Considering Multi-Energy Mixed Fleets and Traffic Restrictions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-15, December.
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