Optimal inventory management of a bike-sharing station

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1077-1093

  Raviv, Tal ^a   Kolka, Ofer ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ClickSoftware Technologies   (Israel)

Author keywords

double ended queues; inventory management; Shared mobility systems

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-ENDED QUEUES; EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY MODELS; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; MOBILITY SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION METHOD; REAL LIFE DATA;

BICYCLES;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 84880191417     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2013.770186     Document Type: Article

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