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.
Highlights
Nowadays, bike-sharing systems (BSSs), as a low-carbon and sustainable transport mode, are becoming more and more popular across the global, as they can reduce road congestion and decrease greenhouse gas emissions caused by motorized transportation [1,2].The first BSS was introduced in Amsterdam in 1965 [3] and there are more than 1500 active BSSs [4] and this number is growing at an increasing rate [5,6]
In order to improve the search efficiency and get solutions with higher quality, we introduce the variable neighborhood structures [32] into the framework of Simulated Annealing (SA), and propose SAVN to deal with the real-life BRP-MMFTR instances
As a low-carbon and ecologically sustainable transportation mode, BSS has become a way to deal with the growing menace of global warming
Summary
Bike-sharing systems (BSSs), as a low-carbon and sustainable transport mode, are becoming more and more popular across the global, as they can reduce road congestion and decrease greenhouse gas emissions caused by motorized transportation [1,2].The first BSS was introduced in Amsterdam in 1965 [3] and there are more than 1500 active BSSs [4] and this number is growing at an increasing rate [5,6]. Some operators are trying to meet user demand by placing bikes in cities in large numbers, but this creates congestion on city streets and is not sustainable. In China, the government has introduced policies to restrict operators from placing too many bikes. These operators have to transfer bikes from the surplus stations to the deficiency stations by means of vehicles so that the BSS can be rebalanced. This problem is known as the Bike-sharing Rebalancing
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