Rental Car Research Articles

Solving the station-based one-way carsharing network planning problem with relocations and non-linear demand

One-way station-based carsharing systems allow users to return a rented car to any designated station, which could be different from the origin station. Existing research has been mainly focused on the vehicle relocation problem to deal with the travel demand fluctuation over time and demand imbalance in space. However, the strategic planning of the stations’ location and their capacity for one-way carsharing systems has not been well studied yet, especially when considering vehicle relocations simultaneously. This paper presents a Mixed-integer Non-linear Programming (MINLP) model to solve the carsharing station location and capacity problem with vehicle relocations. This entails considering several important components which are for the first time integrated in the same model. Firstly, relocation operations and corresponding relocation costs are taken into consideration to address the imbalance between trip requests and vehicle availability. Secondly, the flexible travel demand at various time steps is taken as the input to the model avoiding deterministic requests. Thirdly, a logit model is constructed to represent the non-linear demand rate by using the ratio of carsharing utility and private car utility. To solve the MINLP model, a customized gradient algorithm is proposed. The application to the SIP network in Suzhou, China, demonstrates that the algorithm can solve a real world large scale problem in reasonable time. The results identify the pricing and parking space rental costs as the key factors influencing the profitability of carsharing operators. Also, the carsharing station location and fleet size impact the vehicle relocation and carsharing patronage.

Automatic construction of vertical search tools for the Deep Web

With the constant increase in the volume of information available on the Web, it is more dificult to find the specific information related to a given domain. Users are facing the problem of information overload, in which a query about a specialized subject (local information, e-commerce: hotels, airlines, car rental; science: biology, mathematics, medicine, etc.) on a web search engine, it returns a lot of web pages or results that in most of the cases are outside the domain of interest. This is one reason why the vertical search tools have become a necessity for users that seek specific-domain information from diferent databases available in the Web through input sources called Web Query Interfaces (ICWs). This paper describes an approach for automatic integration of ICWs, a crucial task to construct vertical search tools. The proposed methodology is validated by realizing a vertical search prototype called VSearch that allows users to transparently query multiple web databases in a specific-domain through a unified ICW. The proposed approach for automatic ICWs integration is based on: i) a hierarchical model called AEV for modeling the visual content of ICW; ii) semantic clustering for the identification of relationships between fields in ICWs; and iii) a field homogenization and unification process of AEV schemes for the construction of a unified ICW. The VSearch prototype was implemented and evaluated using a study case. The experimental results demonstrate the high precision in the integration phase and an efective methodology to create a functional vertical search tool for a given domain

Strategi Pengembangan Bisnis Rental Mobil Wiralodra 27 dengan Pendekatan Model Bisnis Kanvas

Wiralodra 27 rental car is a car service provider in Bogor city. Due to the high potential market in this industry, the car rental company requires an appropriate business model and new strategies in the face of competition. The objectives of this research are 1) to identify present business model of the company using the canvas business model approach; 2) to analyze each element that becomes the strength, weakness, opportunity and threat that affect the business model of the company; 3) formulate strategies to improve the canvas business model; and 4) to make recommendations for the improvement program of the business development of Wiralodra car rental 27. The method used in this research included the canvas business model and SWOT analysis as a tool of analysis. The respondents of this research consisted of 5 members of the Board of Director of the company and one senior employee. In addition, there were also twenty four customer respondents who were selected with purposive sampling. The research results showed recommendations for the improvements of all key elements of the canvas business model. The main priority scales of the improvements are the elements of customer segment, key partnership, revenue stream for associated risk factors of the business. The second priority scales of the improvements are the elements of value propositions, channel, customer relationship, key resources, key activities, and cost structure. Keywords: canvas business model, rental car services, SWOT, Wiralodra

Assistance Skills Competency Test Activities (UKK) Software Engineering Department in SMK Negeri 6 Jember

The goal of this community engagement is to foster private Vocational Schools in the implementation ofCompetency Skills Test (UKK) Department of Software Engineering (RPL). The selected vocational practice exam is Package 3 on Car Rental App Design. The main activities of community service are accompaniment of implementation preparation, product assessment activities of vocational practice, and monitoring and evaluation (monev) value of competency achievement result. The objective of the preparation is to ensure the readiness of the implementing elements of both schools, learners’ understanding of the selected package and the preparation of laboratory infrastructure for hardware, software, network, and electrical installation. The purpose of the assessment is to provide students with a certain level of competency. While the objective of monev is to evaluate the results of achievements and feedback on improvements in the implementation of the following year. Execution preparation activities are conducted by SMK Sub-Rayon and monitored by the External Examiners (Dunia Usaha Dunia Industri or DUDI). While the assessment activities conducted by the Internal Examiners and DUDI from the University of Muhammadiyah Jember and the State Polytechnic of Jember. DUDI involvement has become a requirement in the guideline of UKK implementation of National Education Standards Agency (BSNP). In addition, DUDI is expected to maintain independence and professionalism in assessing the level of competence achieved by students, and the form of recognition from competent external agencies. From the assessment by DUDI stated that the students who pass pure as much as 171 or 95,53%, passed remedial as much as 2 or 1,12% and student do notpass as much as 6 or 3,35%. The non-graduation is due to the low achievement of the competency level, and some of the students do not take the exam.

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9 3 R R O U N D A B O U T C H A D D A V I D S O N As Odysseus finds his portal to the underworld, delivers his libations, I kill time just down the shore, a page or two away, in the blur the book becomes after taking o√ my glasses. Such trouble seeing, Tiresias must think, and why Odysseus goes there. Once I almost killed some folks is not a known beginning to any passage of the Odyssey, though in Anzio, just south of Rome, I almost did. Rental car. Mist and night. I had been drinking is sort of how the Greek bard starts his tale, and how I almost ended everything. You don’t come back from that, is probably what, watching Odysseus set out, Circe thought. 9 4 Y I thought the guy would kill me. He earned that dispensation, I suppose, from whatever held my car a second in the roundabout. Not one blemish on the bright red scooter ferrying them right up to the edge of my last night in Italy, and far beyond. I cannot see beyond that bright non-tragedy, and yet return again, again in mist, unlike the hero, man of many turns, who beholds his mother’s shade in Erebus, and three times tries to grasp her, to earn his passage home. ...

Sustainable City Transport Strategies: Tourist Perspectives on Dubai

In any tourist destination, a functioning transport infrastructure and system is vital. Transportation systems provide tourists the means for moving within and among cities. For the Emirate of Dubai to continue to be a major hub of tourism and business while still maintaining a healthy living environment for its residents, direction towards sustainable transport network and facilities is inevitable. In Dubai, transportation experts, city planners, and tourism bodies often seek the most sustainable modes of transportation for tourists and sustainable-development transport strategies. One key component missing from information in such endeavors is the opinions and thoughts of tourists themselves on sustainable transport in the study area. The primary objectives of this study was to investigate the views and opinions of the visiting tourists in their usage of different transport modes, as well as the distances they travel within the city and their views on the best strategies of sustainable transport for the city of Dubai to pursue. A systematic random sampling approach was used to collect information from 1000 tourists using self-administered questionnaires with closed and open-ended questions. The results revealed diverse opinions that varied widely across their geographic region of origin: bicycle was a preferred mode of transport for people coming from Africa, Asia, and Australia, while bus usage rated high for people from Africa, Asia, and South America, and Europeans preferred private or rental cars. Tourists’ opinions regarding adoption of sustainable transport showed that the majority, 60.1%, preferred different transport modes for sustainable development, while 23.4% preferred vehicle/technological changes. It is interesting to note that respondents with higher levels of education ranked buses/trains as the most sustainable mode of transport for Dubai, while respondents with high school and Bachelor’s degrees believed that taxis were the most optimum.

The Design and Realization of Vehicle Rent Information System Based on Java

In recent years, with the “Internet ” action plan put forward by the state, “Internet industry” has been widely used in various industries, especially in the country. With the encouragement of the “Internet traffic” innovative form, the Internet rental car industry is developing rapidly. Therefore, the establishment of a network-based car rental management system is conducive to improving the operational capacity of enterprises to meet the needs of industry development. The system is mainly based on j2EE, mainly using struts 2 Spring hibernate and other frameworks, using MyEclipse as a development tool, MYSQL as a database, Macromedia Dreamweaver as a tool for interface beautification, and using JAVA language development. The page adopts JSP dynamic page development technology. The system has simple interface, easy operation and easy maintenance.

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1 5 4 Y F I C T I O N I N R E V I E W A Y T E N T A R T I C I ‘‘For her part, Alice was starting to consider really rather seriously whether a former choirgirl from Massachusetts might be capable of conjuring the consciousness of a Muslim man.’’ Having just ordered hotdogs from a halal cart on the Upper West Side, the twenty-something publishing assistant Alice in Lisa Halliday’s striking debut novel Asymmetry asks herself a delicate compositional question: Can a white Christian girl from New England accurately portray the consciousness of a male Muslim immigrant ? Jonathan Franzen would tend to say no. In a 2016 interview with Slate, the American novelist argued that not having many African American friends precluded him from writing a novel with a black protagonist: ‘‘If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person – a person of a di√erent race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people – I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.’’ Franzen frames the choice to represent otherness not just as an act A s y m m e t r y : A N o v e l , by Lisa Halliday (Simon and Schuster, 288 pp., $26) 1 5 5 R of audacity but also as an almost unnatural, transgressive wish. The polemic is as old as James Joyce’s rendering of the inner thoughts of an Irish Jew, Leopold Bloom, but is given fresh life in Asymmetry, which both rises to the challenge of and wrestles with the possibility of intercultural representation. Asymmetry has an unusual tripartite structure. The first section , titled ‘‘Folly,’’ chronicles the relationship between Alice and the aging writer Ezra, and is modeled on Halliday’s own relationship with Philip Roth when she was in her twenties and he in his sixties. By contrast, the second section, ‘‘Madness,’’ is the firstperson account of Amar, an Iraqi American graduate student of Kurdish extraction, in the period leading up to and just after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. The third part, ‘‘Ezra Blazer’s Desert Island Discs,’’ loops back to the fictionalized version of Roth, but in the unconventional format of a BBC radio interview. Halliday thus deliberately mixes writing about what she knows, her relationship with Roth, with writing about what she ostensibly does not, the first-person account of an Iraqi American. While ‘‘Folly’’ covers familiar ground, taking place in literary New York, mostly within a couple of blocks between Amsterdam and Broadway , ‘‘Madness’’ shuttles among Los Angeles, New York, London, Amman, Baghdad, and Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. Intensifying the geographical unfamiliarity, Amar finds himself navigating culturally liminal and often uncomfortable spaces: a windowless immigration holding room at Heathrow, a smoke-filled rental car shared with an Iraqi intelligence o≈cer on the road from Jordan to Iraq. The sweep of Halliday’s novel at first feels at odds with the fiction of Roth, who, after all, wrote nine novels about his own literary alter-ego, Nathan Zuckerman. That outsized attention to male ego at the expense of all else led Sondra Bleich to remark that ‘‘Roth’s women either materialize out of a Dewing landscape, so ethereal as to be unattainable, or lunge at us from a De Kooning abstract, so gross as to be totally undesirable. In either case, they are unreal.’’ The alleged flatness of his female characters has resulted in the oft-repeated critical appraisal of his work as closeminded and misogynist. While Halliday wanders the globe, Roth is stuck in suburban New Jersey. In Asymmetry, Roth’s doppelgän- 1 5 6 T A R T I C I Y ger, Ezra, even admonishes Alice with the hackneyed MFA dictum to write what she knows: ‘‘Do you write about this? About us?’’ ‘‘No.’’ ‘‘Is that true?’’ Alice shook her head hopelessly. ‘‘It’s impossible.’’ . . . Ezra looked skeptical. ‘‘Do you write about your father?’’ ‘‘No.’’ ‘‘You should. It’s a gift.’’ ‘‘I know. But writing about myself doesn’t seem important enough.’’ ‘‘As opposed to...

US Supreme Court Affirms Fourth Amendment in Rental Car Search, Steers Clear of Commercial Contract Limitation (Byrd v United States)

US Supreme Court Affirms Fourth Amendment in Rental Car Search, Steers Clear of Commercial Contract Limitation (Byrd v United States)

Transport modes junction in an airport

The paper tries to improve the multimodal passenger transport system. The growing demand for mobility has led to the need of finding ways to deal with it. The Authorities should focus on providing an attractive public transport which implies a public transport with sufficient transport capacity and with announced and correlated transport schedules.Transfer time is one of the most important service quality indicator for evaluating intermodal transit system.The paper is making available to decision-makers from transport domain a methodology for correlating both transport capacities and transport schedules, exemplifying it on a case study in Henri Coanda airport.To increase the airport accessibility, the airport Authority depends on other involved organizations like: urban and regional public transport companies; taxi operators; rental car companies etc. The transport options for air passengers from/to home to/from Henri Coanda Airport are: individual long distance modes (private vehicle, taxi); collective long distance modes (bus transport). The paper presents the correlation of transport capacities and transport schedules in Henri Coanda airport considering the air traveler passengers flow

Electric-Car-Sharing in Urban Logistics – The Analysis of Implementation and Maintenance

The implementation of the sustainable transport policy in cities aims at finding various solutions that support the use of ‘clean energy’ in urban logistics. One of current global sustainable transport trends involves various measures related to electromobility. An example of electromobility in urban logistics is the e-car-sharing, or a short-term electric car rental. Since electric car-sharing is rather new to the transport market, operators and cities and metropolises may face various difficulties while implementing such services. Based on still operating and discontinued e-car-sharing systems, the authors analysed strengths and weaknesses of those systems with the focus on implementation and maintenance issues. The goal of the article is to determine strengths and challenges for e-car-sharing in urban logistics. The article is designed to assist stakeholders interested in the implementation of e-car-sharing. The analysis was provided under the international research project of ‘Electric travelling platform to support the implementation of electromobility in Smart Cities based on ICT applications’ funded from the National Research and Development Centre as a part of the ERA-NET CoFund Electric Mobility Europe Programme.

Simulation and Design of Fast Charging Infrastructure for a University-Based e-Carsharing System

Carsharing is a mode of transportation that provides access to a set of vehicles in the form of organized short-term car rental, serving as a substitute for private car ownership with a number of transportation, environmental, and social benefits. Combining the mobility concept of carsharing with electric vehicles (EVs), referred to as e-carsharing, can contribute not only to more efficient use of the shared vehicles, but also to more sustainable urban mobility in smart cities. In this context, this paper advances the concept of university-based e-carsharing, to serve the mobility needs of an academic community in Bilbao, Spain, focusing on the technical design aspects to cover the energy requirements of the EV fleet of the proposed system through the installation of fast charging posts based on a battery-to-battery approach. In this regard, a MATLAB/Simulink model is implemented to simulate the fast charging infrastructure using the real-world data collected from the university parking lot in order to represent the potential utilization of the EVs. The simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed system design, ensuring that the energy demand of the EVs is successfully covered and concurrently the charging station batteries operate out of the low charge zone.

From Low-Cost Airline Baggage to By-Minute Car Rental, the Impact of Penalty Cost on Customers' Booking Decisions

From Low-Cost Airline Baggage to By-Minute Car Rental, the Impact of Penalty Cost on Customers' Booking Decisions

The Effect of Home-Owning on Business Development: Micro-Level Evidence

This paper evaluates the effect of home-owning on business. There are both positive and negative spillovers from home-owning. The positive spillover is that owners are more stable and they build better amenities, which attracts business. The negative one arises through the NIMBY effect. Both impacts vary with the distance between residence and business, neighborhood income levels, and business types. The aim of this paper is to firstly identify the distance at which the positive effect exceeds the negative one or vice versa. Secondly, I want to find whether the net impact differs for higher or lower residential income groups. Finally, I investigate the impacts for different industries. I employ a K-means clustering method to study the spatial effect with distance by clustering the business first and then drawing donut rings of residents around business clusters. The major endogeneity concern might be the reverse causation. I incorporate multiple identification strategies to cross check the results: fixed effects (FE), first difference (FD) and Instrumental Variable methods (IV). Using American Community Survey (ACS) and Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Work Area Characteristics (WAC) panel data from 2009 to 2014, I conclude that home-owning only decreases the job counts of adjacent distances of within .3 miles and benefits the business in 3-5 miles. Negative impacts are only identified in higher income groups while the lower income groups benefit business development. Service industries like Retail, Art and Professional Services are welcomed in higher income groups while Manufacturing, Real Estate and Car Rental and Leasing are welcomed in lower income groups.

Research on "Internet + Travel" Business Model

The combination of mobile internet and traditional has created the new economic business model of + Travel, and the current + Travel is in the ascendant, which has aroused wide public concern. + travel in our country has developed into a mature stage, its successful business model has been more and more extensive attention. + travel mainly includes Internet special car, internet car rental, Internet carpool, internet driving and sharing of bicycles. This article is mainly from the angle of the Internet special car to study the + Travel business model, introduced the + Travel research background, basic concepts and the status quo, and the internet special car business model as an example of the detailed analysis and comparison.

Case Article—Tactical Decisions at Vastrapur Car Rental Services

Vastrapur Car Rental Services operating in Ahmedabad, Gujarat State, India offers five different options to its rental customers. Each option has a usage agreement (limits on mileage and duration) and rental rate and some customers exceed these limits. The central theme of the case is to compute the average profitability in the context of limited fleet size, uncertainty related to number and type of customer requests, and variability in the utilization of vehicles. In addition, the case provides an opportunity to discuss situations like negotiating wages, outsourcing vehicles on a need basis, and subscribing capacity to an integrator (an online platform linking the supply and the demand sides). The case was given to MBA students in a core probability course and a core decision sciences course. The discussion can span over one or two classes depending on the students' background and nature of the course. The case helps students apply different concepts in probability (including random variables and expected value) to analyze a real-life managerial situation. When resolved appropriately, it demonstrates the power of simple probabilistic tools in addressing managerial challenges. The case is amenable for a simulation based analysis to study the interplay between demand variability (quantity and mix) and economic consequences in multiple scenarios. Supplemental Material: The teaching note is available at https://www.informs.org/Publications/Subscribe/Access-Restricted-Materials .

Case—Tactical Decisions at Vastrapur Car Rental Services

Case—Tactical Decisions at Vastrapur Car Rental Services

Prediction of Severities of Rental Car Traffic Accidents using Naive Bayes Big Data Classifier

Prediction of Severities of Rental Car Traffic Accidents using Naive Bayes Big Data Classifier

Aplikasi Mobile Driver Online Berbasis Android Untuk Perusahaan Rental Kendaraan

PT.XYZ is one of many companies which engaged in rental cars and driver services provider. They are still using un computerize system when doing the business, so this system makes some problems, such as low processing of data that has not been controlled due to the frequent occurrence of recording errors, errors in the calculation of transaction and the slowness in making the report. The purpose of this research is to know the running system in the company, designing, and implementing the new development system of online driver mobile applications based on android in PT.XYZ. The purpose of this research intends to add insight and knowledge as well as implementing the theory into the company. The development of this system is expected could helping the administrator staff to do the tasks and making the report easier than before.
 Index Terms— Android, Driver Online, Rental Kendaraan.

Modelling preferences for smart modes and services: A case study in Lisbon

In this research, we investigate the acceptability of three new and emerging smart mobility options and quantify the associated willingness-to-pay values in the context of Lisbon using a comprehensive stated preferences (SP) survey. The smart mobility options include shared taxi, one-way car rental, and a novel combination of park-and-ride and school bus facilities. While previous surveys on smart mobility options had investigated limited number of alternatives in isolation, the SP survey used in this research presents the smart mobility options alongside the existing options and their traditional variants like congestion pricing and improved public transport systems. Further, the choice of mode, departure time and occupancy are investigated in a multidimensional framework. This resulted a large choice set (with 9 modes, 5 departure times, and 2 occupancy levels leading to 135 alternatives in total) and required a novel survey design.The main survey administered over the internet and computer aided personal interviews included 2372 valid SP observations from 1248 respondents. Multi-dimensional mixed logit models were used to capture the complex correlations introduced due to the non-traditional survey design. Results indicate a significant preference of one-way car rental and shared taxi for non-commute trips. For commute trips, improved versions of traditional public transport modes are favoured over smart mobility options. These findings, as well as the novel data collection and modelling approach, are expected to provide important information to transportation planners and policy makers working to implement smart mobility options in Lisbon as well as in other cities.