One-way car-sharing system based on recharging strategy

Abstract

The recent advent of internet has promoted the development of sharing economy in many fields, ranging from trip, accommodation. In the field of car-sharing, many studies have been dedicated to the scheduling problem of car-sharing, especially for one-way station-based car-sharing systems in which users are able to return the rented car to any available stations. However, most of current studies have focused exclusively on fuel car-sharing instead of electric car-sharing. For the sake of environmental benefits, most car-sharing companies seek to use electric vehicles instead of non-electric vehicles. Compared with non-electric vehicles, electric vehicles need consider electricity and recharging time, which complicates the operating system. To simplify the problem setting of the electric car-sharing system, most of previous studies have ignored the recharging problem. In this paper, we propose a one-way station-based electric car-sharing system with recharging using Mixed Integer Linear Programming. At last, we do a case study of Jiading District, Shanghai, China to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed model.