Fleet management for vehicle sharing operations

Transportation Science

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 524-540

  Nair, Rahul ^a   Miller Hooks, Elise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicycle sharing; Car sharing; Chance constrained programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VEHICLES;

BICYCLE SHARING; CHANCE CONSTRAINT; CHANCE-CONSTRAINED PROGRAMMING; DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER ALGORITHM; FLEET MANAGEMENT; GENERATION METHOD; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMS; NEAR-TERM DEMANDS;

FLEET OPERATIONS;

EID: 81555209819     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1100.0347     Document Type: Article

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